SCARE
What does "SCARE" mean?
To frighten someone, or to become frightened, often suddenly.
Meanings
- To cause sudden fear in a person or animal. The thunderclap scared the dog under the bed.
- To drive away by frightening. We hung old CDs in the orchard to scare off the crows.
- A sudden feeling of fear, or an event that causes it. The lump turned out to be nothing, but it gave us a real scare.
- A widespread, often exaggerated public alarm. The product recall set off a nationwide food scare.
Word origin
From Old Norse 'skirra', meaning 'to frighten' or 'ward off', related to 'skjarr' ('shy, timid'); it entered Middle English as 'skerren'.
Remember it
SCARE keeps CARE inside it - fear is often just care turned inside out.
A little poem
The mask was rubber, the scream was real-
fear knows the difference last, not first.
couplet
Wordplay
- Why did the scarecrow win an award? He was outstanding in his field - and good at the scare part too.
What it teaches
A scare is information arriving faster than thought; let the thought catch up before you act.
Quick facts
What does SCARE mean?
To frighten someone, or to become frightened, often suddenly.
Is SCARE a valid word?
Yes — SCARE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SCARE?
SCARE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does SCARE come from?
From Old Norse 'skirra', meaning 'to frighten' or 'ward off', related to 'skjarr' ('shy, timid'); it entered Middle English as 'skerren'.
What can SCARE teach us?
A scare is information arriving faster than thought; let the thought catch up before you act.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.