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Meaning of "scare story" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF SCARE STORY

skeə ˈstɔːrɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SCARE STORY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Scare story is a noun.
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.

WHAT DOES SCARE STORY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of scare story in the English dictionary

The definition of scare story in the dictionary is a story which is designed to cause fear or alarm.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SCARE STORY

cacciatore · centaury · clearstory · clerestory · glory · Maggiore · midstory · multistorey · overstory · satori · single-storey · six-storey · storey · story · sumotori · Tory · two-storey · understorey · understory · yakitori

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SCARE STORY

scarce as hen´s teeth · scarcely · scarcement · scarcities · scarcity · scarcity value · scare · scare quotes · scare tactics · scare the pants off · scarecrow · scared · scared to death · scaredy · scaredy-cat · scarehead · scaremonger · scaremongering · scarer · scarey

WORDS THAT END LIKE SCARE STORY

alternative history · ancient history · back story · cover story · credit history · directory · ghost story · history · horror story · life story · love story · medical history · natural history · oral history · prehistory · service history · short story · sob story · social history · success story · the same old story

Synonyms and antonyms of scare story in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «scare story» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF SCARE STORY

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

The translations of scare story 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 story» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

恐怖故事
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

historia de miedo
570 millions of speakers
en

English

scare story
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

डराने कहानी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قصة تخويف
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

напугать история
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

história de terror
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

ভয়ঙ্কর গল্প
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

rumeur alarmiste
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Cerita menakutkan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Angst Geschichte
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

恐ろしい話
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

겁 이야기
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Crita scare
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

câu chuyện sợ hãi
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

பயமுறுத்தும் கதை
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

घाबरणे कथा
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Korkutmak hikaye
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

storia spavento
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

przestraszyć historia
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

налякати історія
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

poveste terifiantă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τρομάξει ιστορία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bang storie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skrämma berättelse
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skremme historien
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of scare story

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SCARE STORY»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about scare story

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCARE STORY»

Discover the use of scare story in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to scare story and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Scare Story
When Frank Brennan's interlude of back-seat passion with his wife, Janet, is disturbed by a fast-moving convoy of army trucks on a minor road over Salisbury Plain, he decides to investigate.
Stan Hey, 2001
2
The Backyard Series Volume Two: The Baby Bear Scare Story
This here story begins at the end of the school semester in June of 1930.
S. Lee Richardson, 2012
3
Web Site Story
The millennium bug appears to be real as a new plague begins to spread--a computer virus that is transmitted from computer mouse to humans.
Robert Rankin, 2001
4
Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919-1920
The published writings, memoirs, or collected manuscripts of the important figures in the Red Scare story were used as well as the important existing biographies. I also utilized to advantage a host of monographic studies relating to the many ...
Robert K. Murray, 1955
5
Consumer-Driven Health Care: Implications for Providers, ...
Contrary to the message of the screw the sick scare story, when consumerdriven health insurance is offered under the employers' umbrella, it will help the sick with innovative products that are designed for their special needs. Currently, as I  ...
Regina E. Herzlinger, 2004
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Red Scare: Right-Wing Hysteria, Fifties Fanaticism, and ...
She proposed that the chapter issue a new circular correcting the scare story. The leadership ruled her proposal out of order since no motions could be made from the floor at Minute Women meetings. The Minute Women took no action and  ...
Don E. Carleton, 2014
7
Light Piercing the Heart of Darkness
This aspect, of course, has likewise been carefully hidden from the public. As deeply concerned citizens, the vast majority of people believe in the ozone depletion theory and its attached scare story of a projected dramatic rise in skin ...
8
Beyond Textuality: Asceticism and Violence in ...
Once the Polynesians were aware of the British obsession with cannibalism, they were surely going to feed it, either to scare the British or laugh at them, or both. Consider the following native scare story noted by Forster. There circulates on ...
Gilles Bibeau, Ellen E. Corin, 1995
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Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in ...
Consider the following native scare story noted by Forster. "There circulates on board a Story made up I believe on purpose, that the Natives told, that a ship arrived on the Northern Isle in a great Storm, and was there broke to pieces. The Men ...
Gananath Obeyesekere, 2005
10
The Wolf: How One German Raider Terrorized the Allies in the ...
Now he used every means possible to generate a scare story that was entirely different but equally erroneous—that the missing ships had fallen victim to the very “Teutonic hand” he had been warning about. Hughes had already ordered the ...
Peter Hohnen, Richard Guilliatt, 2010

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCARE STORY»

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Texts from Quarantine: Brooklyn Patient Shares Ebola Scare Story
Where were you when you first heard word that there might be an Ebola case in New York? Eric Silverman, a 27-year-old Brooklyn grad student who was ... «Gawker, Aug 14»
REFERENCE
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