Crossword clues for scaring
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of scare English)
Usage examples of "scaring".
Bought the first home automobile, too, that damn red Reo he ran up and down the streets last year, scaring the horses.
Cullen spent the morning running up and down the rows of corn, his arms outstretched, scaring up droves of crows.
One kid, really too young to drive, had been rodding a big dragging machine up and down Broadway, scaring people out of the street.
In the process they were scaring up dozens of deer that wanted no part of the game.
Cloud had hung around Shamesey hills, coming down to the town gate at night, scaring hell out of the gate-guards.
Occasionally, though, they coiled up like rattlesnakes and hissed, scaring the volunteer half to death.
But that old brujo is still around, drunk morning, noon, and night, whiter, summer, spring, and fall, scaring all the kids with his toothless mouth.
We were thinking that Garrett kept harassing and scaring him until he snapped.
I made sense, and I apologized to the officer for scaring him, which elicited a grin from the sergeant behind him.
Great for sniffing threats both animated and fixed, great for hearing subtle whines and rustles that even AI sensors would neglect, and absolutely wonderful for scaring the shit out of people.
One and Two, and sorted gear as we went, scaring the hell out of the crew by leaving the doors open and hanging gear on the rails.
She laughed softly, and in a clear, calm and very pleasing voice said that she was guilty of being greedy and clumsy, that she had nearly succeeded in scaring me away with her antics, but that the situation had suddenly changed.
I admitted that whatever was there was scaring me at a very deep level, enough to make me die of fright.