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- verb Present participle of
scare .
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Examples
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For a very long period this was done by what we call scaring or splicing, the neck of the club having a long bevel which was spliced with the shaft and bound round for several inches with black twine.
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The Republican right wing and the Tea Party folks have been successful in scaring Sen. Graham to stop working with Democrats.
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He delighted in scaring old ladies into fits by stepping off into the tank with their sons or grandsons and hiding away in here.
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The whole "Climate Change" cult consists of fanatics who have succeeded in scaring the heck out of most of the gullible masses and convinced them that mankind has control over the climate.
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Farmers have a natural advantage over big-city haunts in scaring patrons, thanks to the popularity of horror movies set in remote areas like "Texas Chainsaw Massacre," says Brady Armour, co-owner of Unit 70 Studios, a Columbus, Ohio, monster maker.
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The whole "Climate Change" cult consists of fanatics who have succeeded in scaring the heck out of most of the gullible masses and convinced them t
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Recent academic studies have shown that the Bush Brogan program has succeeded in scaring the worst public schools into reforming themselves.
Economists as Heretics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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One source said: "We succeeded in scaring David Cameron off."
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The sad fact of the matter is that the Republicans have succeeded in scaring the public about the bill and their success has been total.
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They figured the fake soldiers would be sufficient in scaring away any attackers.
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