Scare - Definition

n 1: sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events;
"panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare
led them to evacuate the building" [syn: panic, scare]
2: a sudden attack of fear [syn: scare, panic attack]
v 1: cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building
frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her" [syn:
frighten, fright, scare, affright]
2: cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" [syn: daunt,
dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away,
frighten away, scare]