scare : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: scare	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for scare
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scare n sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events; "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building" Synonym(s): panic, scare a sudden attack of fear Synonym(s): scare, panic attack v cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her" Synonym(s): frighten, fright, scare, affright cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" Synonym(s): daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scare \Scare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scaring}.] [OE. skerren, skeren, Icel. skirra to bar, prevent, skirrask to shun, shrink from; or fr. OE. skerre, adj., scared, Icel. skjarr; both perhaps akin to E. sheer to turn.] To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm. The noise of thy crossbow Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost. --Shak. {To scare away}, to drive away by frightening. {To scare up}, to find by search, as if by beating for game. [Slang] Syn: To alarm; frighten; startle; affright; terrify.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scare \Scare\, n. Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake. [Colloq.]