亚洲网紅露点

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scare

[ skair ]

verb (used with object)

scared, scaring.
  1. to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm:

    What scares me most about the disease is the residual effects on the lungs and heart.

    The ducks scared my sister by flying right toward her.

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verb (used without object)

scared, scaring.
  1. to become frightened:

    That horse scares easily.

noun

  1. a sudden fright or alarm, especially with little or no reason:

    I recently had a scare when my computer seemed to be malfunctioning, but it turned out to be nothing.

  2. a time or condition of alarm or worry:

    During the anthrax scare, people were leery of opening envelopes from addresses they didn't recognize.

verb phrase

  1. to frighten or alarm someone or something so much that they go away and stay away:

    Business leaders felt the fuel tax would scare away consumers fearing higher electricity bills and rising gasoline costs.

    The bee's sting isn't necessarily deadly, but it's painful enough to scare off predators.

  2. Informal. to obtain with effort; find or gather:

    We want to renovate the kitchen, but first we'll need to scare up some money.

scare

/ 蝉办蓻蓹 /

verb

  1. to fill or be filled with fear or alarm
  2. tr; often foll by away or off to drive (away) by frightening
  3. informal.
    tr foll by up
    1. to produce (a meal) quickly from whatever is available
    2. to manage to find (something) quickly or with difficulty

      brewers need to scare up more sales

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a sudden attack of fear or alarm
  2. a period of general fear or alarm
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. causing (needless) fear or alarm

    a scare story

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞蝉肠补谤别谤, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 蝉肠补谤路别谤 noun
  • 蝉肠补谤路颈苍驳路濒测 adverb
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of scare1

First recorded in 1150鈥1200; (for the verb) Middle English skerren, from Old Norse skirra 鈥渢o frighten,鈥 derivative of skjarr 鈥渢imid, shy鈥; (for the noun) late Middle English skere, derivative of the verb
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of scare1

C12: from Old Norse skirra; related to Norwegian skjerra, Swedish dialect skjarra
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Idioms and Phrases

  • run scared
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"My grandparents fought in the war and because of that today we can look at the sky and see an airplane and we don't feel scared, like they did," says the 20-year-old college student.

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鈥淢iss you brother, you really scared the s鈥 out of us!鈥

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"At one stage there was a big eruption... I was quite scared," she said.

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鈥淭his is just another scare tactic to get us to follow his authoritarian agenda 鈥 but it鈥檚 not going to work.鈥

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It found bullying was an issue inside the corporation, with some people viewed as "untouchable" because of their status and colleagues too scared to speak up, for fear of reprisals.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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