scare

scare
[[t]ske͟ə(r)[/t]]
scares, scaring, scared
1) VERB If something scares you, it frightens or worries you.

[V n] You're scaring me...

[V n] What scares me most is that I'm going to end up not being married...

[V n adj] The prospect of failure scares me rigid...

[it V n to-inf] It scared him to realise how close he had come to losing everything.

Syn:
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PHRASE: V inflects If you want to emphasize that something scares you a lot, you can say that it scares the hell out of you or scares the life out of you. (emphasis) [INFORMAL]
2) N-SING If a sudden unpleasant experience gives you a scare, it frightens you.

Don't you realize what a scare you've given us all?...

We got a bit of a scare.

3) N-COUNT: oft n N A scare is a situation in which many people are afraid or worried because they think something dangerous is happening which will affect them all.

...the doctor at the centre of an Aids scare...

Despite the scare there are no plans to withdraw the drug.

4) N-COUNT: usu n N A bomb scare or a security scare is a situation in which there is believed to be a bomb in a place.

Despite many recent bomb scares, no one has yet been hurt.

...a security scare over a suspect package.

Syn:
5) → See also scared
Phrasal Verbs:

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