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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]:
scared
adjective: made afraid; "the frightened child cowered in the corner"; "too shocked and scared to move" [syn: {frightened}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
20 Moby Thesaurus words for "scared": afeared, afraid, aghast, alarmed, anxious, appalled, fear-struck, feared, fearful, frightened, haunted with fear, horrified, panicked, panicky, scary, shocked, spooked, startled, terrified, terror-stricken
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