noun
definition
A minor fright.
example
Johnny had a bad scare last night.
definition
A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread.
example
a food-poisoning scare
definition
A device or object used to frighten.
Examples of scare in a Sentence
He didn't scare her the way Jonny did, and she wasn't certain why, beyond the obvious that he healed her.
There's nothing that's going to scare you.
They don't scare us much.
It wasn't her intent to scare them.
I think you're trying to scare me.
Don't pay any attention to him, Fritz, he's just tryin' to scare us.
I don't believe in white-sheeted spirits that scare little boys or drag chains around or only come out in cemeteries on Halloween.
We had a scare there, but she pulled through.
Either that or scare us badly.
They figure Josh is tough competition - but do you really think Josh could scare them off if they knew you were interested?
By the way, it was Ginger who shot the gun—just to scare us off.
Don't let all my talk scare you.
A witchcraft scare (at its worst in 1691-1697, though the earliest Connecticut case was in1646-1647and the earliest in Boston in 1648) led to another tragedy of ignorance.
Do you think you could scare us up a warm snack?
Their religion has been described as a kind of demonworship, consisting of rude dances and shouts raised to scare away the evil spirits, whom they confound with their ancestors.
I didn't mean to scare you.
You could try a little more not to scare me so much.
A pretend skeleton someone put there to scare you?
After the arrival of Lord Dufferin as governor-general the incident known as the Panjdeh Scare brought Britain to the verge of war with Russia.
In January 1985 Princess Margaret had a section of her left lung removed in a cancer scare.
Sorry BBB I disagree with your " proven formula to ignore scare mongers " .
She glanced up at him, basking in the afterglow of a good scare.
You've only been strangled nearly to death and gone through a terrible scare.
Let me see if I can make sense of this for you… I have been fighting very hard to keep my feelings in check so as not to scare you away.
I'm glad to see you got something out of it besides a cut hand and the scare of your life.
My driving doesn't scare you?
The major national invasion scare occurred on the night of September 7th 1940.
This is a very timely question in light of the recent commercial cat food scare.
If I'm the first person whose mind you can't read, doesn't it scare you that you can't tell what I'm thinking?
It is actually easier to trace the development of the UFO mythos to the British airship scare of 1912-13.
Whilst she is reinforcing the MMR scare, hundreds of children are going unprotected from the measles.
But it also has the capacity to scare some people witless.
What are we talking about, he 'd scare the shit out of them !
The paranoia over Bolshevism, the " Red Scare " of 1919, engendered an atmosphere of mistrust and intolerance in American society.
The next day, the media were full of scare stories about ' gas attacks ' on the Tube.
The food scare has now brought the British beef market to the verge of collapse; there is great unease among the people.
Hands all wiggling around in claw shapes, like you 're trying to scare the computer into doing what you want.
Tyler jumped around the corner and shouted "Aha!" to scare his mother.
To celebrate Halloween, I'm going to dress as a revenant and try to scare my little sister.
When you wonder how to buy a scanner, does it scare you to think of all the techno-terms and different features that come with it?
With the pet food recall scare of 2007, cat owners began to research common ingredients in some of the most common foods on the market.
If your cat goes in search of the litter box and the CatGenie is in a cleaning cycle, it may scare your cat.
Often these emails use scare techniques such as "Your password was stolen" or "Your account is inactive.
Many discussions about the consequences of global warming degenerate into apocalyptic warnings, but this purpose of this article is not to scare you.
As faithful purveyors of monsters and mayhem, most of us want to throw a shindig that can scare and entertain and one sure fire way to do that is to come up with gross recipes for Halloween.
The haunted houses are always either in a "scare free" zone, or are not in full swing until evening, when younger children are probably at home in bed.
Like I said, the names of everything shouldn't scare you away.
I searched on Yahoo about the rumor, but came up with nothing, which leads me to believe that it was started to scare gamers (and probably parents).
Many of these stories are meant to be a bonding experience but sound more like horror stories that are meant to scare you into a perpetual state of pregnancy rather than ever experiencing the miracle of childbirth.
He advised the people to put up red paper decorations on their windows and doors, light torches and make loud noises like fire crackers to scare away the beast.