as in to frighten
to strike with fear
thunderstorms have always scared her
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as in fear
the emotion experienced in the presence or threat of danger
fired over their heads in order to throw a scare into them
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Recent Examples of scare
Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 26 Dec. 2024
Trev promises that this will be the least he’s ever let anybody down, and the Doctor goes off to scare people throughout history by popping through portals and pretending to be delivering a room-service snack prepared by the Time Hotel kitchen (which operates 30 minutes in the future).
—Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
Griff Griffin, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
New Snow White preview says heigh-ho to Gal Gadot's spooky Evil Queen transformation and menacing Magic Mirror
She also shared what the health scare taught her.
—EW.com, 30 Dec. 2024
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Verb
Donald Trump loves to sue people for defamation to scare them out of making negative statements about him.
—Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 26 Dec. 2024
Trev promises that this will be the least he’s ever let anybody down, and the Doctor goes off to scare people throughout history by popping through portals and pretending to be delivering a room-service snack prepared by the Time Hotel kitchen (which operates 30 minutes in the future).
—Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
Noun
There's nothing immaculate about the macabre scares, however.
—Griff Griffin, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
New Snow White preview says heigh-ho to Gal Gadot's spooky Evil Queen transformation and menacing Magic Mirror
She also shared what the health scare taught her.
—EW.com, 30 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scare
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Marina, frightened, fled the spa, almost leaving behind her shirt, and spent the next hour looking over her shoulder to see whether the woman had, in fact, called someone.Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
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Some frightened residents even abandoned their cars on one of the only roads in and out of the upscale Pacific Palisades area, fleeing on foot from the engulfing blaze.Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
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The bitcoin price dropped to around $92,000 per bitcoin, restarting a sell-off that had lost steam earlier this week amid fears of a looming bitcoin price crash.Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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Over the course of 24 hours, the pair discuss fellow luminaries, navigate existential fears, and reflect on the joys and struggles of being an artist.Radhika Seth, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2025
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And Rob is very much a sort of cat among pigeons — everyone's terrified of him.EW.com, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2025
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She was terrified because her cat was in the house.Claire Hoffman, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2025
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Studies point to lower grades and higher rates of car accidents, athletic injuries, risky behaviors, substance abuse, obesity, depression, and anxiety.Lynne Peeples, TIME, 6 Jan. 2025
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No place does this mix of anxiety and forward-looking techno-evangelism spring forth more profusely than at CES.Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2025
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The most recent superintendent was basically run out of the job in June after startling dysfunction in the central administration was uncovered.Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2024
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More on Axios: PR's misguided metrics Israeli intelligence sees growing chance Assad's forces collapse in Syria Israeli intelligence officials have been startled by a faster-than-expected collapse of the Syrian army's defense lines over the last 24 hours, two senior Israeli officials tell Axios.Eleanor Hawkins, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024
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David Ornstein has been activated and all of The Athletic’s club reporters are on the case as your team makes that shrewd addition/flamboyantly overpays for a panic buy/makes that weird loan signing to keep an agent sweet.Nick Miller, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
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As Kinch went to retrieve it, Williams felt panic grip his chest.Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 4 Jan. 2025
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“Scare.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scare. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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