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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scare \Scare\, noun Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake. [Colloq.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scare \Scare\, verb (used with an object) [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, adjective, 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. [Slang]
Syn: To alarm; frighten; startle; affright; terrify.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
scare
noun
1: 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}]
2: a sudden attack of fear [syn: {panic attack}]
verb
1: cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me" [syn: {frighten}, {fright}, {affright}]
2: cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" [syn: {daunt}, {dash}, {scare off}, {pall}, {frighten off}, {scare away}, {frighten away}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "scare": abject fear, affright, alarm, awe, blue funk, bluff off, collect, come by, consternation, cow, cowardice, curdle the blood, daunt, dig up, dismay, disquiet, dread, fear, find, freeze, fright, frighten, frighten off, funk, gather, get, horrification, horrify, horripilate, horror, intimidate, make one tremble, menace, panic, panic fear, paralyze, petrify, phobia, put to flight, raise, raise apprehensions, scare away, scare up, scrape together, scrape up, shake, shake up, shock, spook, stagger, stampede, start, startle, strike terror into, surprise, terrify, terror, terrorize, threaten, unholy dread, unman, unnerve, unstring
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