Scare Fear Major People Tactics Noun Bre Skeə(R

• a bomb/health scare
• recent scares about pesticides in food
• a scare story (= a news report that spreads more anxiety or fear about something than is necessary)
• to cause a major scare

scare

1. a situation in which a lot of people are anxious or frightened about something
• a bomb/health scare
• recent scares about pesticides in food
• a scare story (= a news report that spreads more anxiety or fear about something than is necessary)
• to cause a major scare
• scare tactics (= ways of persuading people to do something by frightening them)
2. a sudden feeling of fear
• see also scary
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/scary
• You gave me a scare!
• We've had quite a scare.

Extra Examples

• I got quite a scare when the police called me.
• It wasn’t a serious heart attack, but it gave him a terrible scare.
• The ad uses scare tactics to get people to stop smoking.
• The government used scare tactics to get parents to have their children vaccinated against the disease.
• a major health scare
• the scare over British beef
• the scare over bird flu
• Les had a health scare two years ago and was ordered to cut down on drinking.
• There was a bomb scare at the airport.

Word Origin

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