What is scare?

Famous quotes containing the word scare:

    I scare him to death, I don’t have to kill him to death.
    —Willis Cooper. Rowland V. Lee. Ygor (Bela Lugosi)

    “Why wouldn’t it scare me to have a fire
    Begin in smudge with ropy smoke, and know
    That still, if I repent, I may recall it,
    But in a moment not: a little spurt
    Of burning fatness, and then nothing but
    The fire itself can put it out, and that
    By burning out....”
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    Young children scare easily—a tough tone, a sharp reprimand, an exasperated glance, a peeved scowl will do it. Little signs of rejection—you don’t have to hit young children to hurt them—cut very deeply.
    James L. Hymes, Jr. (20th century)