Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.

    Did it scare you when I said "Boo!"?

    erschrecken, beängstigen, ängstigen

    пуга́тьpugátʹ, испуга́тьispugátʹ, напуга́тьnapugátʹ

    ляка́тиljakáty, наляка́тиnaljakáty, зляка́тиzljakáty

  2. (intransitive)(To be able) to be scared.

    I don't scare easily.

More definitions
  • cause fear in
  • cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away

Examples

3150 sentences

  1. Don't be scared of making mistakes.

    Не бійтеся помилятися.

    ruНе бойтесь ошибаться.

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  2. There's nothing to be scared of.

    Немає чого боятися.

    ruБояться нечего.

    deDa ist nichts, was man fürchten muss.

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  3. I didn't say I was scared.

    Я не сказала, що я боюся.

    ruЯ не говорил, что мне страшно.

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  4. Tom was scared to go outside.

    Тому було лячно йти на вулицю.

    ruТом боялся выходить на улицу.

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  5. Tom had to have been scared.

    Том, мабуть, був наляканий.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to frighten:
Русский
By meaning 1
to frighten:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to frighten:

Origin

From Middle English scaren, skaren, scarren, skeren, skerren, from Old Norse skirra (“to f

From Middle English scaren, skaren, scarren, skeren, skerren, from Old Norse skirra (“to frighten; to shrink away from, shun; to prevent, avert”), from Proto-Germanic *skirzijaną (“to shoo, scare off”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to swing, jump, move”). Related to Old Norse skjarr (“timid, shy, afraid of”). Cognate with Scots skar (“wild, timid, shy”), dialectal Norwegian Nynorsk skjerra, dialectal Swedish skjarra and possibly Old Armenian ցիռ (cʻiṙ, “wild ass”).

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Forms

scares, scaring, scared, scared
Base formscare · to scare
3rd person singularscares
Present participlescaring
Past simplescared
Past participlescared

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyscare
he, she, itscares

Past simpleLesson

all personsscared

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave scared
he, she, ithas scared

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill scare

Phrasal verbs

4 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

11 synonyms
frightenA2terrifyA2
Close in meaning

Word family

23 related words
Relatedscarer
DerivedscaredB1bescarebird-scareroutscareoverscarescareablescare awayscare-babescare-beggarscarecrowscaredy-catscare intoscaremongerscare offscare-sleepscare storyscare straightscare-the-birdsscare upscariantscarifyunscare

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • is scared of
  • too scared to
  • was too scared
  • was scared to
  • trying to scare
  • scared to do
  • scared of snakes
  • as scared as
  • really scared
  • was really scared
  • scared to go
  • not scared of

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
scarcescarcelyB2scarcityscarecrowscarfA2
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