scare Значение & определение

Значение на scare на български

• 0 to (make a person or animal) feel frightened:

  • Sudden noises scare her.

  • She's very brave - she doesn't scare easily.

  • He scared me out of my wits (= made me extremely frightened) by driving so fast.

  • Meeting new people scares me stiff/to death (= makes me extremely nervous and worried).

  • She scared the hell/life/living daylights out of me (= frightened me very much) when she fell out of the tree.

• 1 a sudden feeling of fear or worry:

  • I got/had a scare (= I was very worried) when I looked at my bank statement this morning!

  • You gave us a real scare (= frightened us) when you fainted, you know.

  • a bomb/health scare

  • The government are accused of employing scare tactics (= ways of frightening people in order to persuade them to do something).

  • The papers have been publishing scare stories (= newspaper reports which make people feel unnecessarily worried) about the mystery virus.

• 2 to feel frightened, or to cause someone to feel frightened:

  • [ T ] Snakes scare me.

  • [ I ] Jesse doesn’t scare easily.

• 3 a strong, sudden feeling of being frightened:

  • You gave me a real scare.

• 4 a situation in which people are very afraid that something bad will happen:

  • After his health scare, he started exercising more.