单词 | scare |
释义 | scare I. transitive verb 1. 2. a. < 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. < from scaring birds, the … child graduated through the many tasks of mixed farming — Times Literary Supplement > c. < sent a beater ahead to scare out the partridge > intransitive verb 1. < a woman who scares easily at the sight of a mouse > 2. Synonyms: see frighten II. 1. < fired over their heads to throw a scare into them > : an instance of being scared: as a. < given quite a scare by hearing the news of a boy's drowning before their son returned > b. < the frontier situation and British arbitrary naval seizures produced a war scare in the spring of 1794 — S.F.Bemis > 2. < scares were made of poles wrapped with reeds hung with potsherds — C.D.Forde > III. 1. < scare stories that tuna caught in the Pacific are dangerously radioactive — U.S. News & World Report > 2. < a refuge for scare money from unsettled parts of the world — Christian Science Monitor > |
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