Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - scare

~1 v 1 to make someone feel frightened  (Ignore him, he's just trying to scare us. | scare the hell/life/shit out of sb (=scare someone very much))  (You scared the hell out of me jumping out like that!) 2 to become frightened  (I don't scare easily you know!) scare sb into phr v to make someone do something by frightening them or threatening them  (scare sb into doing sth)  (Some parents try to scare their children into behaving well.) scare sb/sth off/away phr v 1 to make someone or something go away by frightening them  (We lit fires to scare away the wolves.) 2 to make someone uncertain or worried so that they do not do something they were going to do  (Rising prices are scaring off many potential customers.) scare up sth phr v AmE informal to make something although you have very few things to make it from  (Let me see if I can scare up something for you to eat.) ~2 n 1 a sudden feeling of fear  (give sb a scare)  (That car only just missed me - it gave me a real scare!) 2 a situation in which a lot of people become frightened about something  (a bomb scare | An escape of radioactive gas caused a major scare.)