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

Meanwhile, the championship game of the NHL’s 4 Nations Face-Off scared up the month’s biggest cable audience, with 9.25 million viewers tuning in to ESPN for the U.S-Canada rematch. —Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 19 Mar. 2025

Paramount+ is scaring up more School Spirits, renewing the supernatural drama for Season 3, TVLine has learned. —Andy Swift, TVLine, 19 Mar. 2025

Its synch in the blockbuster film Ghost scared up new love for the ballad, sending the original version back to a No. 13 high. —Gary Trust, Billboard, 18 Mar. 2025

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

Word History

First Known Use

1841, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for scare up

• buttercup
• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup

Kids Definition

scare up

verb

: to find or get together with much labor or difficulty

managed to scare up the money