Crossword clues for scare
scare
- Chill to the bone
- Cause of goose bumps
- Cause alarm to
- Work in a haunted house
- What Casper tries not to do
- Type of tactics
- Type of headline
- Sweat inducer
- Say "Boo!" to, perhaps
- Near-miss, perhaps
- Kind of headline
- Instill fear in
- Hiccups cure, so they say
- Hiccup cure, perhaps
- Goosebump raiser
- Find, with "up"
- Cause trembling
- Yell "boo!" at, say
- Word with crow
- Word with "tactics" or "quotes"
- Word before quotes or tactics
- What this puzzle's theme words aim to do
- What demonic shock rocker will try to do
- What Dangerous Toys tried to do
- Throw into a panic
- Sudden alarm
- Shout "Boo!" at
- Say "Boo!" to on Halloween
- Say ''boo'' to
- Push to start
- Period of panic
- Oct. 31 goal
- Major Lazer "___ Me"
- Little shock
- Leap out at?
- Kenny Chesney "___ Me"
- Jump ___ (fright technique in films)
- Induce to jump
- Hiccups stopper
- Hiccups cure, some say
- Heart-pounding event
- Haunted house success
- Goal of the "Scream" producers
- Give the creeps
- Give goosebumps to
- Frighten the bejeezus out of
- Frighten (off)
- Force to start
- Evoke screams
- Do ''Boo!'' to
- Deter, with "off"
- Crow or head
- Certain kind of crow
- Cause to start
- Cause to jump, maybe
- Cause to jump, in a way
- Cause of an adrenaline rush
- Benjamin Diamond "Little ___"
- Be an effective ghost
- Attack of fright
- Alarm, as in a haunted house
- Aerial near-miss, e.g
- 10/31 sensation
- "Eek!" inducer
- __ tactic
- Was interested to follow cricket scores: be very nervous
- Alarming situation?
- Spooky incident
- Terrify
- Daunt
- False alarm
- Start
- Startle
- Close call
- Close shave
- Heart-pounding episode
- Hair-raiser
- Curl the hair of
- Adrenaline producer
- Say "Boo!" to, say
- Near miss, perhaps
- Frightening event
- Anti-Communist fervor
- Hair-raising experience
- Hiccup cure, it's said
- Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
- A sudden attack of fear
- Panic
- Word with crow or head
- What bugbears do
- Do some blockbusting
- Intimidate
- Be a bugbear
- Time of alarm
- ___ up (gather quickly)
- Horrify
- Kind of babe or crow
- Kind of tactic
- Crow of a kind
- What ogres do
- Kind of crow or babe
- Kind of crow or head
- Cause goose pimples
- Word with head or crow
- Bomb ___
- Word with babe or head
- ___ up (find)
- ___ up (get with effort)
- Word with babe or crow
- Greatly frighten
- Sudden attack of fright is small worry
- Shake up
- Freak out
- Close one
- Narrow escape
- Cause for alarm
- Tense situation
- Fill with fear
- Cause to panic
- Cause to jump, perhaps
- Rustle (up)
- Make quake
- Make jump
- Give the willies
- Give a start to
- Word with tactics or crow
- What a false alarm may cause
- Psych out
- It might make you start
- Hiccup cure, supposedly
- Heart-stopping incident
- Fill with fright
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
The noise of thy crossbow
Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost.
--Shak.
To scare away, to drive away by frightening.
To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game.
Syn: To alarm; frighten; startle; affright; terrify.
Scare \Scare\, n. Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake. [Colloq.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, alteration of Middle English skerren (c.1200), from Old Norse skirra "to frighten; to shrink from, shun; to prevent, avert," related to skjarr "timid, shy, afraid of," of unknown origin. In Scottish also skair, skar, and in dialectal English skeer, skear, which seems to preserve the older pronunciation. To scare up "procure, obtain" is first recorded 1846, American English, from notion of rousing game from cover. Related: Scared; scaring.
"something that frightens; sudden panic, sudden terror inspired by a trifling cause, false alarm," 1520s, alteration of Middle English sker "fear, dread" (c.1400), from scare (v.). Scare tactic attested from 1948.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A minor fright. Etymology 2
vb. To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.
WordNet
n. 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]
a sudden attack of fear [syn: panic attack]
v. cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me" [syn: frighten, fright, affright]
cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" [syn: daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "scare".
He was like an acrophobe edging along a precipitous path, scared to look down, afraid of losing his balance and falling accidentally, afraid too of the impulse that might lead him to plunge purposefully into the void.
I have also with soberness considered since, did so offend the Lord, that even in my childhood he did scare and affrighten me with fearful dreams, and did terrify me with fearful visions.
As we all witnessed during the anthrax scare last fall, we must improve and streamline our methods of communicating with the public.
Had Rossi actually looked through them himself, or had he merely had time to list the possibilities in that archive before being scared away from it?
He had scared Bester the moment they met, when he had fixed him with those cold, dark eyes.
Harry nodded, with no hint of his usual braggadocio, looking like nothing more than a scared little boy.
He was surprised that anything in this life could still scare him, but as he looked at this twist of wreckage and bodies, a cluttered sacrifice, he understood that he was just a common brawler, incapable of anything close to this display.
He preached, favoring Moses and Abraham, and Burnside scared himself half to death.
Fortunately, Dum-Dum said he had just the thing for them, a special concoction of his own devising, consisting of an astringent compounded of alum, sharkskin oil, hydrocortisone and a butylated cream to hold the ingredients into a semi-solid mass, guaranteed to either scare hemorrhoids back where they came from or simply dry the whole mess up into something that could be snipped off with a pair of surgical scissors.
When I was a litigator, I actually saw lawyers who were scared of stepping into court.
Musgrave and Lawley were both confidingly asleep, while he sat up alert and vigilant maturing a mischievous plot that had for its object the awakening and scaring of both the innocent sleepers.
Coker Minimus, whose round scared eyes looked out over the top of the sheet.
He wanted so desperately to believe it that he imagined himself shouting at the mongrel for scaring him half out of his mind.
Tell them part of the deal Newsome made was that he was to scare his own men into quitting.
He acted scared, but back of all that nigra shout was something cunning.