Scare
[skeə] or [skɛr]
Definition
(v. t.) To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.
(n.) Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake.
Editor: Mary
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Frighten, affright, FRIGHT, intimidate, daunt, appall, terrify, make afraid, put in fear.
Edited by Astor
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Terrify, affright, intimidate, frighten, deter, dismay, daunt
ANT:Reassure, encourage, entice, allure
Typed by Annette
Definition
v.t. to drive away by frightening: to strike with sudden terror: to startle to affright.—n. an imaginary alarm: a sudden panic.—adj. lean scanty.—ns. Scare′-babe a bugbear; Scare′-bug; Scare′crow anything set up to scare away crows or other birds: a vain cause of terror: a person meanly clad: the black tern; Scare′-fire a fire-alarm: a conflagration.
Typist: Lottie
Examples
- The police would scare him to death first with a storm of their elegant blasphemy, and then pull him to pieces getting him away from there. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I thought you'd more sense than to let noises scare _you_. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- You scare them to death with your mouth. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- What's the use of not being wounded if they scare you to death? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Come still nearer, Lina; and give me your hand--if my thin fingers do not scare you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A modern steamer, with a noisy screw beating the waters, is enough to scare away all the nymphs in the vicinity. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Did they scare you, Tenente? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Look at that, James and Mr. Crawley, cried Mrs. Bute, pointing at the scared figure of the black-eyed, guilty wench. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I hear even Rosedale has been scared by the talk lately, Mrs. Fisher rejoined; but the sight of her last night sent him off his head. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Love looks and longs, and dares not; Passion hovers round, and is kept at bay; Truth and Devotion are scared. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Are you scared again? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In the mean time we were joined by Clara, whose pallid cheek and scared look shewed the deep impression grief had made on her young mind. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- No human intelligence could have read the mysteries of his mind, in the scared blank wonder of his face. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The porter was so scared that he was going to fetch me, but Godfrey stopped him, had a drink of water, and pulled himself together. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- And because he seems to care but little whether he tells the truth or not, so he scares the reader or excites his envy or his admiration. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I approached this tremendous being; I dared not again raise my looks upon his face, there was something so scaring and unearthly in his ugliness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He sought to blow up the British frigate Eagle with the aid of a torpedo and nearly succeeded in doing so, seriously scaring the British shippers by the explosion of his torpedo. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typed by Anatole