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Scared   /skɛrd/   Listen
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Scare  v. t.  (past & past part. scared; pres. part. scaring)  To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm. "The noise of thy crossbow Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost."
To scare away, to drive away by frightening.
To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game. (Slang)
Synonyms: To alarm; frighten; startle; affright; terrify.






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"Scared" Quotes from Famous Books



... hearty; it was hurricane-like. There were moments when pieces of bread and green almonds were flying across the table, and the noise of voices was so terrific that the quiet hostess looked in at the door with a scared expression which made me think she was wondering how much longer the roof would be able to remain in its right place. Then, the jokes that were exchanged over the table were as broad as the humour of the South is broad. I felt sorry for ...
— Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine • Edward Harrison Barker

... do think I'm foolish, don't you?" she inquired. "But I had sich a time with Doc 'fore I married him that I'm scared half to death every time I hear a long word I ain't right sure of. I was 'most worried out of my wits last Summer when Miss Crawford was lecturin' on Christian Science. It was jist about even whether Doc 'ud git in line or not. He had an awful struggle, poor feller, 'cause he can't ...
— Kilo - Being the Love Story of Eliph' Hewlitt Book Agent • Ellis Parker Butler

... have thought I was moving to California! Nobody ever HAD built above Fortieth Street—no, says I, nor above the Battery either, before Christopher Columbus discovered America. No, no; not one of them wants to be different; they're as scared of it as the small-pox. Ah, my dear Mr. Archer, I thank my stars I'm nothing but a vulgar Spicer; but there's not one of my own children that takes after me but my little Ellen." She broke off, still twinkling at him, and asked, with the casual irrelevance of old age: "Now, why in the ...
— The Age of Innocence • Edith Wharton

... and fill'd my heart with dismay,— Scared by the sounds that used once to rejoice!— O Harry, my Harry, speak loudly, I pray, And not in ...
— Harry • Fanny Wheeler Hart

... said she, "I never was more scared. I happened to wake up, and I thought I see your west window open across the corner; so I roused up to go and see if you was sick; and you wasn't in bed, nor your frock anywhere. I was frighted to pieces; but when I come down and found the greenhouse door open, I went in just for a chance, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various


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