English-Portuguese translations for scare

• amedrontar
• assustar
  - (LT) Um rato é realmente capaz de assustar um elefante? - (LT) Can a mouse really scare an elephant?
  Além disso, o risco cambial já assustará a maior parte dos aforradores. In addition, the exchange rate risk is likely to scare off most investors.
  Tal como ele, opus­me vigorosamente àqueles que tentaram assustar os nossos agricultores e a nossa indústria com afirmações totalmente enganadoras sobre as consequências da proposta. Like him I strongly resisted those who sought to scare our farmers and industry with wholly misleading claims about the consequences of the proposal.
• susto
  A senhora deputada Doyle referiu-se ao susto que apanhámos no meu condado natal, no meu círculo eleitoral, na Irlanda do Norte. Mrs Doyle referred to the scare in my home county in my constituency in Northern Ireland.

Definition of scare

• A minor fright
• A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread
• A device or object used to frighten
• To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way
• lean; scanty

Examples

• Johnny had a bad scare last night.
• a food-poisoning scare
• Did it scare you when I said "Boo!"?

Related words

• scarecrow
• scared
• scaremonger
• scaredy-cat
• scaremongering
• Mascarene
• Mascarenes
• scareware
• scare off