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   Scare

   /sker/

   

   verb

   • 1. cause great fear or nervousness in; frighten: "I was scared stiff"
   • ▪ become scared: "I don't think I scare easily"

   noun

   • 1. a sudden attack of fright: "gosh, that gave me a scare!"
   • ▪ a situation characterized by sudden alarm or anxiety about something: "recent food scares have made the public rightly sensitive to new, apparently untested technologies"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old Norse skirra ‘frighten’, from skjarr ‘timid’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. scarer noun

   Scrabble Points: 7

   • S

     1

   • C

     3

   • A

     1

   • R

     1

   • E

     1

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