<b><font size="4">"scare"</font></b><br/><b>noun</b> <ol> <li>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" [syn: <a href="../panic.html">panic</a>] </li> <li>a sudden attack of fear [syn: <a href="../panic.html attack">panic attack</a>]</li> </ol> <b>verb</b> <ol> <li>cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me" [syn: <a href="/">frighten</a>, <a href="/">fright</a>, <a href="../affright.html">affright</a>] </li> <li>cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" [syn: <a href="/">daunt</a>, <a href="/">dash</a>, <a href="/">scare off</a>, <a href="/">pall</a>, <a href="/ off">frighten off</a>, <a href="/">scare away</a>, <a href="/ away">frighten away</a>]</li> </ol> Source: <a href="../scare.html">http://www.word.sc/scare</a>

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