scare : Idioms & Phrases
red scare
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noun a period of general fear of communists
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scare away
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verb cause to lose courage
scare away; frighten off; dash; pall; daunt; scare; frighten away.
- dashed by the refusal
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scare off
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verb cause to lose courage
scare away; frighten off; dash; pall; daunt; scare; frighten away.
- dashed by the refusal
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scare quote
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noun the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology
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To scare away
- to drive away by frightening.
Webster 1913
To scare up
- to find by search, as if by beating for game. Slang