Synonym: alarm, appall, frighten, horrify, startle, terrify, unnerve. Similar words: scary, scared, scan, scandal, scale, fiscal, scatter, landscape. Meaning: [sker /skeə] n. 1. sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events 2. a sudden attack of fear. v. 1. cause fear in 2. cause to lose courage.
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91. I always seem to be reading about a new food scare.
92. Some people, nervous about the health scare over cellular phones, have started using hands-free apparatus.
93. Aids has caused such a scare that fewer and fewer people are giving blood.
94. All I'd been told was to get hold of her and scare her, get Gerald rattled, you know.
95. Tornadoes are not fascinating to me; they scare the hell out of me.
96. And behind bars ... puppy is seized in rabies scare.
97. This claim has never been proved and it may have been part of the Securitate's scare tactics.
98. The trick is for the 49ers to offer a front-loaded multiyear deal that will scare the Giants off.
99. The bully may even try to scare you off with yet more verbal and physical threats.
100. It took ten minutes to reach Honey Cottage, with Yanto trying his best to scare the pants off Mary.
101. Since then, there has been a running drug scare, complete with pics of comatose teens and tales of deathbed agonies.
102. You also wrongly stated that we use scare tactics such as hostile looks or suggestive comments to keep women away.
103. Statistics like that scare the hell out of me, and they must scare a lot of CEOs too.
104. Statements made by Mr. Lyman were just a calculated scare tactic designed to frighten consumers.
105. Whatever you may think about the morality of abortion, these are the most deplorable scare tactics.
106. I don't think I scare easily[sentencedict.com], but I sure as hell scared myself that weekend.
107. If she wishes to attach herself to the scare, I am delighted.
108. There are those who try to scare away geese with swans, decoys and pyrotechnics.
109. Time was when the Richardson clan could scare this area witless.
110. The demonic figures wearing ugly masks and straw and brushwood clothes are intended to scare away evil spirits.
111. What we're suffering from is a scare promoted by newspapers like his.
112. Tracks can hardly afford to scare away the best horses now that rich races are plentiful and horse transportation is routine.
113. He is capable of rages near to those on-screen moments when he can scare the living daylights out of a cinema audience.
114. If Nine Inch Nails' dreadful racket doesn't scare her off,(www.Sentencedict.com) nothing will.
115. My daughter isn't some notional stereotype invented to scare elderly cardinals.
116. It has had to invent a left with which to scare itself.
117. The business community rallied to him for fear that Duke's election would scare off tourism and outside investors.
118. As for the Tirpitz, her crew received a considerable scare but the ship itself sustained no damage.
119. In fact, when my Aunt Peg got the idea to scare her friends, she'd forgotten all about Mrs Sugar.
120. Now she was trying to scare Liz away for whatever warped reason an anonymous caller might have.