Definition of scare noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
scare
noun
skeə(r) sker
1[countable] (used especially in newspapers) a situation in which a lot of people are anxious or frightened about somethinga bomb/health scarerecent scares about pesticides in fooda scare story(= a news report that spreads more anxiety or fear about something than is necessary)to cause a major scarescare tactics(= ways of persuading people to do something by frightening them)2[singular]a sudden feeling of fearYou gave me a scare!We've had quite a scare. see also scary
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1 [countable] (used especially in newspapers) a situation in which a lot of people are anxious or frightened about somethinga bomb/health scarerecent scares about pesticides in fooda scare story (= a news report that spreads more anxiety or fear about something than is necessary)to cause a major scarescare tactics (= ways of persuading people to do something by frightening them)