scare : Idioms & Phrases


red scare

  • noun a period of general fear of communists
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scare away

  • verb cause to lose courage
    scare away; frighten off; dash; pall; daunt; scare; frighten away.
    • dashed by the refusal
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scare off

  • verb cause to lose courage
    scare away; frighten off; dash; pall; daunt; scare; frighten away.
    • dashed by the refusal
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scare quote

  • noun the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology
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To scare away

  • to drive away by frightening.
Webster 1913

To scare up

  • to find by search, as if by beating for game. Slang
Webster 1913