verb phrase. Informal. to obtain with effort; find or gather: We want to renovate the kitchen, but first we'll need to scare up some money.

a situation in which people are very afraid that something bad will happen: After his health scare, he started exercising more.

Scare is a verb that means frighten or intimidate. You might be embarrassed to admit that you don't want to go to the beach with your friends because of how ...

Related to Old Norse skjarr (“timid, shy, afraid of”). Cognate with Scots skar (“wild, timid, shy”), dialectal Norwegian Nynorsk skjerra, dialectal Swedish ...

: to cause (someone or something) to go away and stay away because of fear or because of possible trouble, difficulty, etc.

scare in American English · 1. to fill with fear or terror; esp., to frighten suddenly or startle; terrify. verb intransitive · 2. to become frightened, esp.

scare the life/living daylights/hell etc out of somebody (=scare someone very much) The alarm scared the hell out of me.

[transitive] to frighten somebody. scare somebody You scared me. it scares somebody to do something It scared me to think I was alone in the building.

Synonyms for SCARE: frighten, terrify, startle, spook, terrorize, panic, shock, horrify; Antonyms of SCARE: reassure, assure, cheer, comfort, soothe, ...