[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

scare \scare\, n.
   fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or
   originating in mistake. colloq.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

scare \scare\, v. t. imp.  p. p. scared; p. pr.  vb. n.
   scaring. oe. skerren, skeren, icel. skirra to bar,
   prevent, skirrask to shun, shrink from; or fr. oe. skerre,
   adj., scared, icel. skjarr; both perhaps akin to e. sheer to
   turn.
   to frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.
   1913 webster

         the noise of thy crossbow
         will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost. --shak.
   1913 webster

   to scare away, to drive away by frightening.

   to scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game.
      slang
      1913 webster

   syn: to alarm; frighten; startle; affright; terrify.
        1913 webster
see also:
scared scaring to scare away to scare up 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

scare
     n 1: sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events; "panic
          in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led
          them to evacuate the building" syn: panic
     2: a sudden attack of fear syn: panic attack
     v 1: cause fear in; "the stranger who hangs around the building
          frightens me" syn: frighten, fright, affright
     2: cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" syn: daunt,
         dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away,
         frighten away
see also:
panic panic attack frighten fright affright daunt 
dash scare off pall frighten off scare away 
frighten away 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

63 moby thesaurus words for "scare":
   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

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