scare1/skɛr; skeə/v [T]1 to make someone feel frightened [ frighten ] 使害怕﹐使恐惧: The fireworks will scare the animals. 烟火会吓着动物。scare the life/living daylights/hell etc out of sb (=scare someone very much) 把某人吓得魂不附体 The alarm scared the life out of me. 警报声把我吓得魂飞魄散。2 scare easily to easily become frightened 容易受惊吓﹐动不动就害怕: I don’t scare easily, you know. 要知道﹐我可不是那么容易给吓倒的。scare sb/sth off/away phr v 1 to make someone or something go away by frightening them 把…吓跑[吓走]: Move quietly or you’ll scare the birds away. 动作轻一点﹐要不你会把鸟吓跑的。2 to make someone worried, so that they do not do something they were going to do 吓住﹐吓倒〔某人使其不敢做某事〕: Customers are being scared off by high prices. 顾客被高昂的价格吓跑了。
scare2n 1 [singular 单数] a sudden feeling of fear 惊恐﹐恐惧: You really gave us a scare . 你真的吓了我们一跳。2 [C] a situation in which a lot of people become frightened about something〔社会上的〕大恐慌: a bomb scare 炸弹恐吓