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    Scare \Scare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scared}; p. pr. & vb. n.
    {Scaring}.] [OE. skerren, skeren, Icel. skirra to bar,
    prevent, skirrask to shun, shrink from; or fr. OE. skerre,
    adj., scared, Icel. skjarr; both perhaps akin to E. sheer to
    turn.]
    To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.

    The noise of thy crossbow
    Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost. --Shak.

    {To scare away}, to drive away by frightening.

    {To scare up}, to find by search, as if by beating for game.
    [Slang]

    Syn: To alarm; frighten; startle; affright; terrify.

    1. That's because the thrift industry faces too much competition _ from within, and from banks and securities brokers _ to risk scaring away depositors by passing along a proposed increase in federal deposit insurance premiums.
    2. I don't know what else you'd call it." The Palestinian uprising has caused a recession in the occupied territories and slowed Israel's economic growth by forcing more military spending and scaring away tourists.
    3. Police are looking for a man in a van who has been scaring schoolchildren with twisted, threatening versions of nursery rhymes.
    4. Boone Pickens has stopped scaring people.
    5. The computer-driven strategy typically links the buying and selling of stock and stock-index futures and has been blamed for scaring away individual investors by feeding market plunges.
    6. They concede they chose the ambiguous name MPV to avoid scaring off "people who wouldn't think of owning a van," says William J. Hackett, vice president of marketing for Mazda Motor of America Inc.
    7. How to laugh in Santa's deep voice without scaring the child.
    8. Even a few Wall Street executives share Mr. Sigler's concerns, fearing that elephantine pension funds are scaring small investors away from the market.
    9. Smelly, slimy slicks of algae along Italy's northern Adriatic coast are scaring away tourists, killing fish and sparking cries for an end to the dumping of untreated wastes into the sea.
    10. WALL STREET SCANDALS aren't scaring off recent business-school graduates.
    11. The Pacific Whale Foundation, for example, has been concerned that water scooters might be scaring off the endangered humpback whales that migrate to Hawaii to breed.
    12. Squabbling within the coalition government may be scaring off foreign investors and suspicion lingers that Panama is a country without a plan.
    13. TWA plans to slash up to half of its overseas service because the Gulf war is scaring too many people from flying. The move could presage further cuts by other U.S. carriers.
    14. Arens, who is to meet today with members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on "CBS This Morning" that the PLO is trying to impose itself in the area and is scaring King Hussein of Jordan away from the peace table.
    15. That means scaring off visitors whose tramping feet grind Offa's Dyke to dust or whose flashy, off-road jeeps turn ancient bridleways into battlegrounds. But rural life is not that simple.
    16. Mr. Brady also agreed with senators' concerns about recent stock-market volatility, and said he realizes that the gyrations are scaring investors from investing in stocks.
    17. But some publishers say the lighter paper is more vulnerable to breaking on presses and, because it is less opaque, more susceptible to print "show-through," thus reducing print quality and possibly scaring away some advertisers.
    18. Traders said that the escalating bids are aimed at pressuring Sterling and scaring off any rival suitors.
    19. "This new cooperation between Mexico and the U.S. is scaring my clients," says Victor Vilaplana, a San Diego lawyer who advises Mexican investors.
    20. Pam Dwyer, executive secretary of the New Hampshire-Vermont Christmas Tree Association, said the state may be scaring people into buying artificial trees.
    21. One New York official blamed the media for scaring tourists away from Long Island beaches by reporting on medical debris that washed ashore.
    22. An earthquake shook the Pacific resort of Acapulco on Monday, scaring tourists and schoolchildren but causing no damage or injuries.
    23. Index arbitrage has been criticized as causing wide swings in the market, scaring investors away and contributing to the market's inability to respond positively to favorable news about the economy.
    24. Fires were apparently a regular event in the South African cave where the fragments were found, although it is unclear whether they were for cooking, warmth or scaring predators, scientists said.
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