What is "scaring up"

Usage examples of "scaring up".

In the process they were scaring up dozens of deer that wanted no part of the game.

The fellow has even succeeded in scaring up some beeches and a cast-iron temple, in which the phenotype Johannes Gutenberg waits for his relief.

Greer said that Brower took an almost childish pleasure in driving it through the narrow streets and byways of the city, scaring up chickens in great, gabbling flocks and making the women and men fall on their knees to their heathen gods.

I keep scaring up strange stories wherever I turn, like I've stepped around a corner and I'm someplace else.

Zach was not an implicit believer in the supernatural, but he didn't believe in scaring up improbable natural explanations just to rule it out, either.

The cop drove slowly past several closed businesses-a muffler shop, a tire store, an abandoned service station, a used bookstore-and shone the patrol car's high-intensity spotlight along the darkened flanks of the buildings, searching for would-be burglars, no doubt, but scaring up nothing more than dervish shadows that whirled and leapt and were extinguished in the dazzling beam.