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.
Usage examples of "to scare up".
And it's as much as me life's worth to speak up and say let's break camp and head south like sensible folk, try to scare up some news from Rome as isn't staler than week-old pig piss.
Fortunately Captain Hufnagel, who has a position in the civilian administration of the Canadian occupation authorities and is able to treat himself and his family to a genuine peacetime Christmas -- he's even managed to scare up some nut butter!
Abner Marsh was up and about early every morning, and on the streets by ten, making calls on shippers and hotel proprietors, talking up his boat and trying to scare up business.
When we'd forted up they left it to me to scare up some fresh meat as we planned to live off the country and stretch our store-bought rations.
Only I decide to scare up a drink first, as I am all of a sudden very very thirsty.
When Maria explained that only every third card was read and that a full look at the future required four decks, Edom returned to the parlor to scare up three more.
I'm just waiting for Carrion and Frost to return, and then we're going into Base Thirteen to scare up some answers.