Usually means: Evoke fear or alarm suddenly.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word scare:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. scare: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scare: Merriam-Webster
  3. scare: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scare: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scare: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scare: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scare, scare: Wordnik
  8. scare: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. scare: Wiktionary
  10. scare: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scare: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scare: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scare: Dictionary.com
  14. scare (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. scare: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Scare, The Scare: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Scare: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. scare: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. scare: Rhymezone
  20. scare: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. scare: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. scare: FreeDictionary.org
  23. scare: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. scare: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scare: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scare: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scare: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCARE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. scare: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scare, scare: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. scare: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A minor fright.
noun:  A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread.
noun:  A device or object used to frighten.
verb:  To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.
adjective:  lean; scanty

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