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Scared   /skɛrd/   Listen
verb
Scare  v. t.  (past & past part. scared; pres. part. scaring)  To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm. "The noise of thy crossbow Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost."
To scare away, to drive away by frightening.
To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game. (Slang)
Synonyms: To alarm; frighten; startle; affright; terrify.






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"Scared" Quotes from Famous Books



... continued, "nobody would be benefited just now by knowing what we know, and to expose the worthlessness of the 'ore' might cause a panic. The public is a queer animal, and never gets scared at just the thing you expect will alarm it, but always at ...
— The Moon Metal • Garrett P. Serviss

... the story in a few simple words. The black man had been skulking about Penshurst for some time. He had scared Mistress Lucy, and the boy had seen him near the house. Mistress Gifford had gone out early to look after the shepherd, who was seeking a lost lamb, and the black man had come out of a hollow. Then Mistress Gifford ...
— Penshurst Castle - In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney • Emma Marshall

... trail of the bark-men who had pursued the doomed hemlock to the last tree at the head of the valley. As we passed along, a red steer stepped out of the bushes into the road ahead of us, where the sunshine fell full upon him, and, with a half-scared, beautiful look, begged alms of salt. We passed the Haunted Shanty; but both it and the legend about it looked very tame at ten o'clock in the morning. After the road had faded out, we took to the bed of the stream to avoid the gauntlet of the underbrush, skipping up the mountain from ...
— In the Catskills • John Burroughs

... how you scared me," he said. "With your grand clothes and high and mighty airs. I had to dig my toes into the floor to keep from cutting and running. And ...
— The Fur Bringers - A Story of the Canadian Northwest • Hulbert Footner

... had for a moment stunned and overthrown him. His rush among the party dispersed them all, but each being able to send forth from his piece a second flash of lightning, the monster was mortally wounded before they fairly started in pursuit of their scared birds, which—their attention being called by the roar of the animal, by the crash accompanying each flash, and probably above all by the restlessness of my own caldecta in their midst—had flown off to some distance. ...
— Across the Zodiac • Percy Greg


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