Scare
Scare , transitive verb
[Old English skerren, skeren, Icelandic skirra to bar, prevent, skirrask to shun, shrink from; or from Old English skerre, adj., scared, Icelandic skjarr; both perhaps akin to English sheer to turn.]
To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.
The noise of thy crossbow
Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost.
Collocations (2)
To scare away , to drive away by frightening.
To scare up , to find by search, as if by beating for game. [Slang]
Scare , noun
Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake. [Colloquial]