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English noun: scare | |||
| 1. | scare (state) sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events | ||
| Samples | Panic in the stock market. A war scare. A bomb scare led them to evacuate the building. | ||
| Synonyms | panic | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | anxiety, anxiousness | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | red scare | ||
| 2. | scare (feeling) a sudden attack of fear | ||
| Synonyms | panic attack | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | fear, fearfulness, fright | ||
English verb: scare | |||
| 1. | scare (emotion) cause fear in | ||
| Samples | The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me. Ghosts could never affright her. | ||
| Examples | Sam cannot scare Sue , The bad news will scare him | ||
| Synonyms | affright, fright, frighten | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | excite, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | alarm, appal, appall, awe, bluff, consternate, dismay, horrify, intimidate, spook, terrify, terrorise, terrorize | ||
| Cause | dread, fear | ||
| 2. | scare (emotion) cause to lose courage | ||
| Samples | Dashed by the refusal. | ||
| Examples | The performance is likely to scare Sue | ||
| Synonyms | dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare away, scare off | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | intimidate, restrain | ||
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