scare
scare is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.
- noun. Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake.
- noun. a sudden attack of fear
- noun. sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
"panic in the stock market"
"a war scare"
- verb. cause fear in
"The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"
"Ghosts could never affright her"
- verb. cause to lose courage
"dashed by the refusal"
Synonyms
panic, affright, fright, frighten, dash, daunt, pall
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in scare:
acres, arces, cares, carse, caser, ceras, escar, races, sacre, scrae, serac
Common word forms
scared, scarer, scares, scaring, scareful
Words from these letters
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