(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.
Scaremonger
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) She also hit out at “scaremongering” by media commentators in the wake of the attack, insisting that it was “very irresponsible” to whip up “mass hysteria” about the dangers of the internet.
(2) "These figures expose the scale of scaremongering by Nigel Farage and Ukip over Romanian and Bulgarian migration," he said.
(3) People don’t really believe that he cares enough and you need somebody who cares and recognises the problem and is seen to act.” During the 2015 campaign, she says that Hunt accused her of “scaremongering” about threats to the NHS.
(4) Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood tackled him on the subject during the seven-way discussion, saying it was scaremongering and that he should be ashamed of himself.
(5) Hunt has already raised the prospect of not all A&E units remaining open during that action and patients’ health being put at risk on 10 February, though the BMA has accused him of scaremongering.
(6) The scaremongering, dissembling and misrepresentation of the no campaign will be ramped up as we approach polling day."
(7) Leading Eurosceptics, who have warned that pro-Europeans will seek to ape the so-called “project fear” tactics of the Scottish referendum, accused the prime minister of scaremongering after No 10 raised the prospect of the refugee camps in northern France moving across the Channel.
(8) But they said they were accused by ministers of scaremongering.
(9) "We are proof that it is entirely possible to teach this in an age-appropriate way – it's not about scaremongering, it's about keeping children safe," says Smith, adding that primary schoolchildren may be at the most risk.
(10) A dossier of murders and rapes committed by 50 EU criminals in Britain has been published by a leading out campaign, in a move described by critics as “scaremongering of the worst kind”.
(11) I was able to live a normal life for a year until the government banned [it] in another reactionary response to media scaremongering."
(12) Misrepresentations of social work Maris Stratulis , England manager, British Association of Social Workers : "Scaremongering is alienating a lot of the people that social workers are trying to work with.
(13) Hatwal said Farage "owes the country an apology for his reckless scaremongering last year".
(14) But amid mounting opposition to the measures, the Communist party lambasted the speech as "scaremongering".
(15) They are the masters of scaremongering and scapegoating.
(16) The positive case for remaining in the EU will also be made by the Scottish National party’s foreign affairs spokesman, Alex Salmond , on Monday, when he will condemn the warnings about the risks of Brexit as, “at best puerile and at worst outlandish scaremongering”.
(17) Simon loves music, too – so much that he formed his own band, the Scaremongers, a few years ago – and he says this: "You could say we've slightly kidded ourselves.
(18) Of course, I feel guilty letting him watch anything at all, thanks to that scaremongering doctor, although the only way to stop a child being exposed to screens in today's world would be to throw him in a bag at birth and not let him out until the end of the next world war.
(19) Nicola Sturgeon has said that [it] would be sufficient to justify a second referendum on Scottish independence.” The report, which appeared to counter the claims by the main pro-EU Britain Stronger in Europe campaign that it would run a positive campaign, was immediately criticised by Vote Leave as scaremongering.
(20) Blair Jenkins, chief executive of Yes Scotland, said Cameron's speech "was the same litany of empty threats and empty promises we have come to expect from the no campaign – and he is the prime minister who has been orchestrating the campaign of ridiculous scaremongering being directed against Scotland".