scare

Word family  noun scare adjective scared scary verb scare

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++scare1 /skeə $ sker/ ●●● S2 verb  1  [transitive]FRIGHTENED to make someone feel frightened 使〔某人〕惊恐，吓唬 SYN frighten, → afraid Loud noises can scare animals or birds. 噪声太大会惊吓到鸟兽。scare the life/living daylights/hell etc out of somebody (=scare someone very much) 把某人吓得魂不附体 The alarm scared the hell out of me. 警报声把我的魂都吓没了。scare the pants off somebody informal (=scare someone very much) 把某人吓得屁滚尿流2  scare easily FRIGHTENEDto be frightened by things that are not very frightening 容易受惊吓，动不动就感到害怕 I don’t scare easily, you know. 你知道我不是那么容易给吓倒的！3 scare somebody into something phrasal verb FRIGHTENEDto make someone do something by frightening them or threatening them 恐吓，威胁scare somebody into doing something You can’t scare me into telling you anything. 你吓唬我也没用，我不会告诉你的。4 scare somebody/something ↔ off/away phrasal verb a) FRIGHTENEDto make an animal or person go away by frightening them 把…吓跑 She moved quietly to avoid scaring the birds away. 她动作很轻，不想把鸟儿吓走。b) PREVENTto make someone uncertain or worried so that they do not do something they were going to do 吓跑〔想做某事的人〕 Rising prices are scaring off many potential customers. 涨价把很多潜在顾客都吓跑了。5 scare something ↔ up phrasal verb American English informal MAKEto make something although you have very few things to make it from 〔在东西不够用时〕凑合做成 Let me see if I can scare up something for you to eat. 我来看看能不能给你凑合着弄点吃的。→ See Verb table

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scare• Tracks can hardly afford to scare away the best horses now that rich races are plentiful and horse transportation is routine.• Dad stormed out and I was so scared he was blaming me that I started crying.• He remembered the menacing phone-calls to Nicola and wondered aloud whether some one from a drugs syndicate had been trying to scare her.• It scared him to think that his mother might never recover.• All the stuff he said about spiders kind of scared me.• They were sexually inexperienced at marriage, and scared of babies.• The procedure is an effective means of scaring off applicants.• Today, he scares the hell out of a lot of Republicans.• She scared the hell out of me when she said she had to go into hospital.• Don't creep up on me like that! You scared the living daylights out of me!• He was scared to death, and his head was almost shaved like new recruits in armies the world over.• He was driving fast just to scare us.• We're not really going to get arrested - I think the police are trying to scare us.scare the pants off somebody• Lovely people who scared the pants off him.• The tests scare the pants off many managers.• It took ten minutes to reach Honey Cottage, with Yanto trying his best to scare the pants off Mary.• Though, mind you, it scares the pants off poor old Crumwallis.scare2 ●○○ noun  1  [singular]FRIGHTENED a sudden feeling of fear 惊恐，惊吓 You really gave us a scare! 你真的吓了我们一跳！2  [countable]FRIGHTENED a situation in which a lot of people become frightened about something 〔社会上的〕大恐慌 a bomb scare 炸弹恐慌 a health scare 健康恐慌

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scare• Aids has caused such a scare that fewer and fewer people are giving blood.• The game was delayed due to a bomb scare.• Retail sales were down due to a spate of bomb scares before Christmas.• Whatever you may think about the morality of abortion, these are the most deplorable scare tactics.• a health scare• Some people, nervous about the health scare over cellular phones, have started using hands-free apparatus.• And behind bars ... puppy is seized in rabies scare.• The media buy into the scam because such scare stories about unseen threats make good headlines.• A year after Chernobyl the scare about radioactive food had died down.• If she wishes to attach herself to the scare, I am delighted.• The scare has been blown out of proportion, said John Marchello, professor of animal science at the University of Arizona.• That said, I think most virus scares are overblown.bomb scare• The previous day also the factory was evacuated after a bomb scare.• Apparently there had been a bomb scare recently.• Cross-channel ferries held up by a bomb scare ...• Following the find, the centre was evacuated again because of a bomb scare which police believe was a hoax.• She says that they were told that it was a bomb scare.• No, not the usual boring bomb scare, but a cultural occasion of enormous significance.Origin scare1 (1100-1200) Old Norse skirra, from skjarr “shy, fearful”

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scare¹ /skeə $ sker/ verb1. [transitive] to make someone feel frightened
   SYN  frighten ⇨ afraid:
    Loud noises can scare animals or birds.
    scare the life/living daylights/hell etc out of somebody (=scare someone very much)
    The alarm scared the hell out of me.
    scare the pants off somebody (=scare someone very much)
2. scare easily to be frightened by things that are not very frightening:
    I don’t scare easily, you know.
     
scare somebody into something phrasal verb
  to make someone do something by frightening them or threatening them
    scare somebody into doing something
    You can’t scare me into telling you anything.
scare somebody/something ↔ off/away phrasal verb
  1. to make an animal or person go away by frightening them:
    She moved quietly to avoid scaring the birds away.
  2. to make someone uncertain or worried so that they do not do something they were going to do:
    Rising prices are scaring off many potential customers.
scare something ↔ up phrasal verb American English informal
  to make something although you have very few things to make it from:
    Let me see if I can scare up something for you to eat.
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ frighten to make someone feel afraid: The thought of being in court frightened him.
   ▪ scare especially spoken to frighten someone. Scare is less formal than frighten, and is the usual word to use in everyday English: He was driving fast just to scare us. | It scared him to think that his mother might never recover.
   ▪ terrify to make someone feel extremely frightened: The idea of going down into the caves terrified her. | Robbers terrified bank staff by threatening them at gunpoint.
   ▪ give somebody a fright to make someone suddenly feel frightened in a way that makes their heart beat more quickly: It gave me a terrible fright when I found him unconscious on the floor.
   ▪ give somebody the creeps if a person or place gives you the creeps, they make you feel slightly frightened because they are strange: This house gives me the creeps.
   ▪ startle to frighten someone. Used when you suddenly see someone and did not know they were there, or when you suddenly hear something: I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to startle you. | The noise startled him, and he dropped his glass on the floor.
   ▪ alarm to make someone feel frightened and worried that something bad might happen: I didn’t want to alarm her by calling in the middle of the night.
   ▪ intimidate to deliberately frighten someone, especially so that they will do what you want: Many of the gangs were using dogs to intimidate people.

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scare² noun1. [singular] a sudden feeling of fear:
    You really gave us a scare!
2. [countable] a situation in which a lot of people become frightened about something:
    a bomb scare
    a health scare