Meaning of "scare" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SCARE

From Old Norse skirra; related to Norwegian skjerra, Swedish dialect skjarra.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SCARE

scare  [skɛə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SCARE

Scare is a verb and can also act as a noun and an adjective.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb scare in English.

WHAT DOES SCARE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Fear

Fear is an emotion induced by a threat perceived by living entities, which causes a change in brain and organ function and ultimately a change in behavior, such as running away, hiding or freezing from traumatic events. Fear may occur in response to a specific stimulus happening in the present, or to a future situation, which is perceived as risk to health or life, status, power, security, or in the case of humans wealth or anything held valuable. The fear response arises from the perception of danger leading to confrontation with or escape from/avoiding the threat, which in extreme cases of fear can be a freeze response or paralysis. In humans and animals, fear is modulated by the process of cognition and learning. Thus fear has been judged as rational or appropriate and irrational or inappropriate. An irrational fear is called a phobia. Psychologists such as John B. Watson, Robert Plutchik, and Paul Ekman have suggested that there is only a small set of basic or innate emotions and that fear is one of them. This hypothesized set includes such emotions as joy, sadness, fright, dread, horror, panic, anxiety, acute stress reaction and anger.

Definition of scare in the English dictionary

The first definition of scare in the dictionary is to fill or be filled with fear or alarm. Other definition of scare is to drive by frightening. Scare is also to produce quickly from whatever is available.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SCARE

PRESENT

Present

I scare

you scare

he/she/it scares

we scare

you scare

they scare

Present continuous

I am scaring

you are scaring

he/she/it is scaring

we are scaring

you are scaring

they are scaring

Present perfect

I have scared

you have scared

he/she/it has scared

we have scared

you have scared

they have scared

Present perfect continuous

I have been scaring

you have been scaring

he/she/it has been scaring

we have been scaring

you have been scaring

they have been scaring

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I scared

you scared

he/she/it scared

we scared

you scared

they scared

Past continuous

I was scaring

you were scaring

he/she/it was scaring

we were scaring

you were scaring

they were scaring

Past perfect

I had scared

you had scared

he/she/it had scared

we had scared

you had scared

they had scared

Past perfect continuous

I had been scaring

you had been scaring

he/she/it had been scaring

we had been scaring

you had been scaring

they had been scaring

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will scare

you will scare

he/she/it will scare

we will scare

you will scare

they will scare

Future continuous

I will be scaring

you will be scaring

he/she/it will be scaring

we will be scaring

you will be scaring

they will be scaring

Future perfect

I will have scared

you will have scared

he/she/it will have scared

we will have scared

you will have scared

they will have scared

Future perfect continuous

I will have been scaring

you will have been scaring

he/she/it will have been scaring

we will have been scaring

you will have been scaring

they will have been scaring

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would scare

you would scare

he/she/it would scare

we would scare

you would scare

they would scare

Conditional continuous

I would be scaring

you would be scaring

he/she/it would be scaring

we would be scaring

you would be scaring

they would be scaring

Conditional perfect

I would have scare

you would have scare

he/she/it would have scare

we would have scare

you would have scare

they would have scare

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been scaring

you would have been scaring

he/she/it would have been scaring

we would have been scaring

you would have been scaring

they would have been scaring

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you scare
we let´s scare
you scare

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to scare

Past participle

scared

Present Participle

scaring

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «SCARE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «scare» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of scare

affright · alarm · alert · daunt · dismay · fright · frighten · hysteria · intimidate · panic · shock · start · startle · terrify · terrorize · turn · warning

TRANSLATION OF SCARE

Find out the translation of scare to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of scare from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «scare» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 害怕
• Translator English - Spanish: susto
• English: scare
• Translator English - Hindi: डराने
• Translator English - Arabic: ذُعْر
• Translator English - Russian: испуг
• Translator English - Portuguese: susto
• Translator English - Bengali: ভীতি
• Translator English - French: peur
• Translator English - Malay: Menakutkan
• Translator English - German: Schreck
• Translator English - Japanese: 恐怖
• Translator English - Korean: 두려움
• Translator English - Javanese: Ajrih
• Translator English - Vietnamese: sự sợ hãi
• Translator English - Tamil: பயத்தின்
• Translator English - Marathi: घाबरणे
• Translator English - Turkish: korkutmak
• Translator English - Italian: spavento
• Translator English - Polish: strach
• Translator English - Ukrainian: страх
• Translator English - Romanian: sperietură
• Translator English - Greek: τρομάρα
• Translator English - Afrikaans: skrik
• Translator English - Swedish: panik
• Translator English - Norwegian: skrekk

10 QUOTES WITH «SCARE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word scare.

1

Kamal Ahmed

As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.

2

Fede Alvarez

A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn't matter how much you think it's going to be funny. A good horror movie will scare the hell out of you... the moment you sit down and you start being exposed to that story, it's going to freeze your blood.

3

Fede Alvarez

'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.

4

Keith Barry

I like pushing the envelope. I like pushing myself and the audience, whether it's a TV show or live. I like to throw people over the edge of the cliff and scare the wits out of them, but then pull them back and make them safe.

5

Ashley Bell

Growing up, I was a huge fan of horror movies. There's nothing more fun than going into a movie with a smile because you know you're going to be scared to death. There's something thrilling about sitting there waiting for a scare to happen.

6

Valerie Bertinelli

I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.

7

Simon Bird

If anything, 'Friday Night Dinner' is quite mean. All these pranks that we play on each other, there's a lot of hitting and slapping and jumping at each other trying to scare each other. But underneath it all it is a family, so we all love each other.

8

Jason Blum

I try not to put pressure on filmmakers to come up with a big scare at the beginning. I think that helps let the audience settle in and get to know the people they're about to spend 90 minutes with. Once the scarier stuff happens, it's scarier because of that.

9

Libba Bray

I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you.

10

Julie Brown

It would be thrilling if I could be boycotted or something. I think that's part of the thrill Madonna gets, when you know you've hit a nerve. But that doesn't scare me. To me what would be a lot scarier would be like appearing on an episode of 'Full House' or something.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCARE»

Discover the use of scare in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to scare and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and ...

And perhaps just as importantly, this book is a cautionary tale, reminding us of how acts taken by the government in the name of "national security" during the Cold War resulted in the infringement of the civil liberties of thousands of ...

David K. Johnson, 2009

1,001 Facts that Will Scare the S#*t Out of You: The ...

Educational, entertaining, and undeniably horrifying, this book isn't guaranteed to help you, um, go to the bathroom, but it's certain to make your time there more . . . informed.

Cary McNeal, 2010

The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in ...

The author of the best-selling When Things Fall Apart offers insightful and compassionate advice on uncovering inner wisdom and opening one's heart while refusing to allow resentfulness and fear to block one's inner light. Reprint.

Pema Chödrön, 2007

Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919-1920

Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Robert K. Murray, 1955

McCarthyism: The Great American Red Scare : a Documentary ...

Drawing upon a rich selection of documents, this text provides a detailed account of McCarthyism and The American Red Scare, a period which spanned from the late 1940s to the mid 1960s.

Albert Fried, 1997

War Scare: Russia and America on the Nuclear Brink

A chilling exploration of the still-present possibility of nuclear war between the United States and Russia examines the unrealistic shortcomings of current American policy toward Russia, showing the dangerous nature of the current ...

Peter Vincent Pry, 1999

Ready for a Scare?

Birthday girl and queen of all things spooky, Kelly Garcia is all set to have the perfect night.

P.J. Night, 2011

McCarthyism: The Red Scare

Discusses fear of communism in the United States during the Cold War.

Brian Fitzgerald, 2006

Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons

With clarity and expertise, Joseph Cirincione presents an even-handed look at the history of nuclear proliferation and an optimistic vision of its future, providing a comprehensive survey of the wide range of critical perspectives.

Joseph Cirincione, 2013

You Can't Scare Me!

Eddie and his friends plan to dress up as the slimy Mud Monsters--legendary spooks who supposedly live in Muddy Creek--but their plans change when they meet the real Mud Monsters.

R. L. Stine, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCARE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term scare is used in the context of the following news items.

Blue Bell begins trial production following listeria scare

BRENHAM, Texas (AP) - Blue Bell Creameries has started ice cream production trial runs in Alabama three months after a listeria scare halted all sales. «Washington Times, Jul 15»

Man in custody after Cairns Airport scare

A MAN is in custody after a security scare which forced the evacuation of Cairns Airport. "THE airport terminal has been evacuated due to the need to clean up ... «NEWS.com.au, Jul 15»

Father says bomb scare was teen's chemistry set

According to the suspect's father, the bomb scare started after his 18-year-old son was arrested for trespassing, entering an abandoned warehouse and ... «WSB Atlanta, Jul 15»

Friends trying to hand off rice cooker cause scare at casino

LINCOLN, R.I. (AP) — Police say two friends trying to hand off a rice cooker at a Rhode Island casino caused a brief security scare. The Twin River Casino in ... «Yahoo News UK, Jul 15»

Old camera bag causes bomb scare on New York-bound plane

... an emergency landing Thursday at Copenhagen's international airport after an old camera bag, possibly forgotten by a passenger, caused a bomb scare. «The Seattle Times, Jun 15»

Sea Lions Are So Not Afraid Of The Fake Orca Sent To Scare Them Off

Well that didn't go as expected. A fake orca brought in to scare sea lions from the port in Astoria, Oregon instead flipped over, filled with water, nearly sank and ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»

Fake Orca Used to Scare Sea Lions in Oregon Town Flops

It's a whale of a tale. An Oregon fishing community tried to use a life-size replica of an orca to scare off thousands of sea lions that clogged up the docks, but the ... «ABC News, Jun 15»

Nick Knowles reveals health scare which prompted him to move to …

TV presenter Nick Knowles has revealed how a health scare prompted him to move abroad in search of a healthier life with his wife and son. The 52-year-old ... «Daily Mail, May 15»

Mother calls police to give her 10-year-old son a 'scare' and 'mock …

COLUMBUS, Ga. (May 4, 2015) — A Georgia mother had police “mock arrest” her misbehaving 10-year-old son to “give him a scare” because he was being ... «Fox 59, May 15»

This Adorable Puppy Tries to Scare Away His Own Hiccups

Meet Buck: the eight-week old Heeler who simply can't wrap his precious head around the involuntary act of hiccuping. Unfortunately, the puppy's valiant efforts ... «Zimbio, May 15»