Scare

Noun

 * 1) A minor fright
 * Johnny had a bad scare last night.
 * 1) A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread.
 * JM is a scare to the capitalists of this country.

Synonyms

 * fright

Derived terms

 * bird-scarer
 * scarecrow
 * scared
 * scarer

Related terms

 * scary

Verb

 * 1) To frighten, terrify, especially in a minor way.
 * Did that scare you when I said "Boo!"?

Synonyms

 * frighten
 * terrify
 * See also Thesaurus:frighten

Adjectives for Scare
baseless; wild; sorry; hopeless.

Verbs for Scare
exaggerate—; foment—; heed—; manufacture—; occasion—; report—; strike with—; work—; —arouses; —fizzles out (colloq.) ; —overcomes; —seizes; —stimulates; —terrifies; —unnerves; —excites; —fades.

Adverbs for Scare
instinctively; baselessly; dreadfully; abominably: waggishly.

Thesaurus
abject fear, affright, alarm, awe, blue funk, bluff off, collect, come by, consternation, cow, cowardice, curdle the blood, daunt, dig up, dismay, disquiet, dread, fear, find, freeze, fright, frighten, frighten off, funk, gather, get, horrification, horrify, horripilate, horror, intimidate, make one tremble, menace, panic, panic fear, paralyze, petrify, phobia, put to flight, raise, raise apprehensions, scare away, scare up, scrape together, scrape up, shake, shake up, shock, spook, stagger, stampede, start, startle, strike terror into, surprise, terrify, terror, terrorize, threaten, unholy dread, unman, unnerve, unstring

Noun

 * Finnish: säikähdys
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 怯え,


 * Russian: испуг,
 * Swahili: ukalili


 * Finnish: pelätti,
 * Italian: : spavento,
 * Japanese:, 脅威


 * Russian:, жупел
 * Swahili: ukalili


 * : 使駭怕, 使骇怕 (shǐ hài pà)
 * : schrikken
 * : effrayer
 * : erschrecken
 * : erschrecken


 * : 놀라게 하다 (nollage hada)
 * : assustar
 * : prestrašiti
 * : asustar, atemorizar, espantar
 * : skrämma

Verb

 * Arabic:
 * Catalan: espantar, espaventar
 * Chinese: 使駭怕, 使骇怕 (shǐ hài pà)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: pelästyttää,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 威かす;  驚かす
 * Korean: 놀라게 하다 (nollage hada)


 * Latin:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:,  ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili: ukalili
 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * acres, cares, ceras, races, sacre, serac

Noun

 * 1) parrotfish

Etymology
From scarus: (also genus name Scarus), from  σκάρος:.

Anagrams

 * âcres
 * caser
 * César
 * crase
 * créas
 * races
 * sacre, sacré