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{
"term": "scare",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "scare",
"heSheIt": "scares"
},
"pastSimple": "scared",
"pastParticiple": "scared",
"ingForm": "scaring"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to frighten somebody",
"sensetop": "scare somebodyit scares somebody to do something",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "You scared me.",
"contextForm": "scare somebody"
},
{
"text": "It scared me to think I was alone in the building.",
"contextForm": "it scares somebody to do something"
},
{
"text": "The very thought of flying scares me stiff."
},
{
"text": "You don't scare me with your threats!"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["really", "easily", "away"],
"verb + scare": ["try to", "want to", "start to"],
"preposition": ["into", "with"],
"phrases": [
"scare somebody silly",
"scare somebody stiff",
"scare somebody to death"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to become frightened",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He doesn't scare easily."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["really", "easily", "away"],
"verb + scare": ["try to", "want to", "start to"],
"preposition": ["into", "with"],
"phrases": [
"scare somebody silly",
"scare somebody stiff",
"scare somebody to death"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to frighten somebody very much",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to frighten somebody very much",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "You scared the life out of me coming in so suddenly like that."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to frighten somebody very much",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Spiders frighten him to death."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to frighten somebody very much",
"labels": "(taboo, slang)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/skeə(r)/",
"audio": "sc/scare/scare__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/skeəz/",
"audio": "sc/scare/scares__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/skeəd/",
"audio": "sc/scare/scared__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈskeərɪŋ/",
"audio": "sc/scare/scaring__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/sker/",
"audio": "sc/scare/scare__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/skerz/",
"audio": "sc/scare/scares__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/skerd/",
"audio": "sc/scare/scared__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈskerɪŋ/",
"audio": "sc/scare/scaring__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old Norse skirra ‘frighten’, from skjarr ‘timid’."
}