Translations for „scare“ in the English » Portuguese Dictionary

I . scare [sker, Brit skeəʳ] VB trans

scare

assustar

to be scared of sth/sb

estar apavorado com a. c./alguém

to be scared stiff

estar morto de medo

II . scare [sker, Brit skeəʳ] N

1. scare (fright):

scare

susto m

2. scare (panic):

scare

pânico m

bomb scare N

bomb scare

ameaça f de bomba

scare away VB trans, scare off VB trans

scare away

afugentar

scare away

espantar

Usage examples with scare

to scare the living daylights out of sb

apavorar alguém

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

There are ghosts of the forests and waters, who are ordered to scare humans.

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So he draws himself invisible and goes about scaring the heck out of his family.

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This is known as the 1983 war scare.

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Fortunately the humans only check the chicken coop for foxes and assume that because it's undamaged the fox was scared off.

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They are designed to scare animals, such as birds that congregate on airport runways.

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Characterized by a pair of stark gleaming eyes, the spirit scares any person who sets eyes on it.

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It is revealed at the end of the episode that the couple had a pregnancy scare.

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The gang learns that a giant gryphon has been scaring away the students and staff.

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I think the indictments are an attempt to scare people off, or to frighten us off, and from there to scare off people in general.

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What he intended to just be a scare for her spiraled into something much more serious, and the police was called in.

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