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单词 scare
释义 scare
I. \ˈske](ə)r, ˈska(a)], ]ə, dial ˈski]\ verb
(scared \](ə)rd, ]əd\ ; or dialect scart \](ə)rt, ]ət\ ; scared or dialect scart ; scaring ; scares)
Etymology: Middle English skerren, skeren, from Old Norse skirra, from skjarr shy, timid
transitive verb
1. : to strike with sudden fear : frighten, alarm, panic
2.
 a. : to drive or impel or evoke by fright
  < rattlesnakes used to scare me to death — Ben Hogan >
  < a scream that scared away the burglar >
  < an aloofness that scares off suitors >
  < scare a confession out of the suspect by threats >
  < a pet mouse that scared the wits out of his mother >
  : cause to become by fright
  < a wild midnight ride that scared him stiff >
 b. : to cause (as bird pests) to go away in fright : frighten off
  < from scaring birds, the … child graduated through the many tasks of mixed farming — Times Literary Supplement >
 c. : to frighten (game) from cover — used with out or up
  < sent a beater ahead to scare out the partridge >
intransitive verb
1. : to become scared : take alarm
 < a woman who scares easily at the sight of a mouse >
2. : to produce fright
Synonyms: see frighten
II. noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English skere, from skeren to scare
1. : a sensation or state of sudden fear
 < fired over their heads to throw a scare into them >
: an instance of being scared: as
 a. : a sudden fright produced by a trifling cause or originating in a mistake
  < given quite a scare by hearing the news of a boy's drowning before their son returned >
 b. : a widespread state of exaggerated or mistaken alarm : panic
  < the frontier situation and British arbitrary naval seizures produced a war scare in the spring of 1794 — S.F.Bemis >
2. : something that causes fright
 < scares were made of poles wrapped with reeds hung with potsherds — C.D.Forde >
III. adjective
1. : tending to cause fright or widespread alarm
 < scare stories that tuna caught in the Pacific are dangerously radioactive — U.S. News & World Report >
2. : affected by or due to fright or panic
 < a refuge for scare money from unsettled parts of the world — Christian Science Monitor >
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