(v. t.) To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.
(n.) Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake.
Example Sentences:
(1) No one deserves to walk out of the theatre feeling scared, humiliated or rejected.
(2) "At first, after the [anti-Putin] protests started in December, the authorities got scared that they had lost control," Polozov said.
(3) Even in the best case this would cause a serious shock to the UK economy.” The CBI report angered Brexit campaigners, who believe the government is trying to scare voters into supporting Britain remaining in the EU.
(4) But even with all of that, and country radio always looking for its next hit, they are still scared of it.
(5) Suffice to say, it was a long, difficult haul with various scares and alarms along the way.
(6) He wasn't the first to employ such scare tactics: in late October, the mayor of the Urals city of Izhevsk was caught on video telling veterans that their government allowances would be raised if United Russia received a high percentage of the vote.
(7) The proportion of people who say they will change their shopping habits – or claim they would buy more fresh meat, cut down on ready meals or avoid products from companies linked to the scare – has dropped from 52% at the height of the furore to 47%.
(8) "They're scared," one woman says April 15, 2014 max seddon (@maxseddon) Slavyansk residents are marching to defend their local airstrip, which is a cornfield with no fuel, working planes, or real runway April 15, 2014 Updated at 5.20pm BST 5.04pm BST There are conflicting reports of casualties at Kramatorsk airport, taken by Ukrainian forces Tuesday afternoon local time.
(9) A Tamil asylum seeker, speaking on condition on anonymity, fears being re-detained or deported: We are scared to go and meet the government.
(10) You’d think such a spry, successful man would busy himself with other things besides crawling into a pile of stuffed animals to scare his daughter’s date.
(11) Listen to Stoopid Symbol Of Woman Hate or Can't Stand Up For 40-Inch Busts (both songs were inspired by a hatred of sexist advertising) and you can hear Amon Duul and Hawkwind scaring the living shit out of Devo and Clock DVA.
(12) Richards was a feminist who, rather than scaring men, stung them with her wit, a technique she famously applied to President George Bush senior in what became a legendary quip in American politics.
(13) It hasn't helped that ministers have talked the economy down, which has scared people.
(14) People are scared at first of open kitchens because they fear it will force them to act in a certain way and they're right.
(15) Neither of us are rampant or militant or any of those other descriptors anti-feminists fling about to scare those who stand up for their rights.
(16) "This is an area we've been scared about for years."
(17) Anthony Wells, director of YouGov’s political and social research team, said: “While there will be speculation about whether this movement is connected to the tragic death of Jo Cox, we do not think that it is... We are now in the final week of the referendum campaign and the swing back towards the status quo appears to be in full force.” EU referendum voters unconvinced by scare tactics: ‘I just want to do what’s right’ Read more Today, both sides will resume their battle to capture the votes of the undecided and to persuade people to switch sides, though both the Leave and Remain camps say that the manner of their campaigning will be more sober and less combative.
(18) And scared that there would be a very public backlash; that I'd be punished."
(19) I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m scary, I’ll fuckin’ scare you then.
(20) "Some soldiers won't fire on the Egyptian people, but others are too scared to disobey orders.
Scarecrow
Definition:
(n.) Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.
(n.) A person clad in rags and tatters.
(n.) The black tern.
Example Sentences:
(1) Every transfer back to MLS from Europe is written about with the "eurosnob" as the argument's scarecrow.
(2) At least if he had to join the Army, he decided, he would apply for the Royal Army Medical Corps, but his diminutive stature (he was just over five feet tall) disqualified him from anything but the Bantam units, "a horrible rabble - Falstaff's scarecrows were nothing to these", he wrote.
(3) Among women, a majority favoured the Scarecrow (37 per cent as opposed to 36 per cent for the Tin Man).
(4) Across the board, 46 per cent of voters said they would prefer to be governed by the Tin Man, compared with 27 per cent who chose the Scarecrow.
(5) Stuntdriver George Cottle went through four Batmobiles during filming of Batman Begins, a retelling of Bruce Wayne's pre-cape capers that sees him do battle with a scarecrow on a fire-breathing horse hell-bent on, as ever, poisoning Gotham's water supply.
(6) When it came to keeping hungry lions at bay, an old-fashioned scarecrow just wasn't up to the job.
(7) I grew up not just gay but tall, speccy and scarecrow-skinny, the child of divorced parents from opposing sides of a sectarian divide.
(8) The program SCARECROW has been developed to help the molecular modeler to analyze and display the very big and complex data files produced by molecular dynamics programs.
(9) The molecular graphics program SCARECROW is written to support the display, animation, and extensive analysis of molecular dynamics trajectories.
(10) Ed Miliband is the Scarecrow, who has persuaded people his heart is in the right place while so far failing to prove that Labour could govern with no money.
(11) The Scarecrow from the classic movie "The Wizard of Oz" is but one example.
(12) We invited people to imagine they lived in the Land of Oz, and the candidates for power were "the tin man, who's all brains and no heart, and the scarecrow, who's all heart and no brains.
(13) His biographer wrote: "He offered as his personal motto the legend hung around the neck of a ragged scarecrow of a man in a painting by Goya : A ú n aprendo .
(14) Late-night TV roundup: Kellyanne Conway is a 'truth scarecrow' Read more But his favorite news organization appears to be the far-right site Breitbart, which Oliver said contained “the kind of headlines you see your old high school friend share on Facebook and think, ‘Oh that’s a shame, I guess Greg sucks now’”.
(15) Turere said he tried various ideas for a more peaceful solution, such as a kerosene lamp and a scarecrow.
(16) They will come the first day and they see the scarecrow, and they go back, but the second day, they'll come and they say, this thing is not moving here, it's always here.
(17) Late-night hosts took aim at Donald Trump’s counselor Kellyanne Conway last night, referring to her as a “truth scarecrow”.
(18) When it comes to any vision for a new economy, they are the scarecrow, the tin man and the cowardly lion – no brain, no heart and no courage."
(19) Having figured in the two previous Batman movies and Inception, it's hardly a stretch to imagine the Scarecrow returning.
(20) More immediately, the task facing both parties is to convince voters that they are neither tin man nor scarecrow.