scare up

verb

scared up; scaring up; scares up

transitive verb

: to find or get together with considerable labor or difficulty : scrape up

managed to scare up the money

Synonyms

• ascertain
• descry
• detect
• determine
• dig out
• dig up
• discover
• dredge (up)
• ferret (out)
• find
• find out
• get
• hit (on or upon)
• hunt (down or up)
• learn
• locate
• nose out
• root (out)
• rout (out)
• rummage
• run down
• scout (up)
• track (down)
• turn up

Examples of scare up in a Sentence

I can probably scare up my old textbooks if you need them.

Recent Examples on the Web

As Manfred sees it, carving out a few new national packages should scare up interest from the sort of deep-pocketed streaming goliaths that’ve enriched the NFL and NBA in recent years. —Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 14 Feb. 2025

Somebody scare up any two men in Minnesota who can beat that. —Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025

Den of Thieves sequel steals the top spot from Mufasa at the weekend box office Not even Wolf Man, Blumhouse and Universal's next reimagining of a classic-era monster after 2020's Invisible Man, could scare up a decent weekend return. —Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 19 Jan. 2025

Over the course of 10 wild and woolly national TV dates, Campbell’s charges scared up 22.6 million viewers per game, edging the perennial ratings champs in Dallas by some 175,000 impressions. —Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 17 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1841, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

scare up

verb

: to find or get together with much labor or difficulty

managed to scare up the money