Dictionary Entry
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.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.
- 2noun
Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake.
- 3noun
a sudden attack of fear
- 4noun
sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
"panic in the stock market"
"a war scare"
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- 5verb
cause fear in
"The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"
"Ghosts could never affright her"
- 6verb
cause to lose courage
"dashed by the refusal"
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