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scare
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sk??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /sk??/
- Rhymes: -??(r)
Etymology 1
From Middle English sker, skere (“terror, fright”), from the verb Middle English skerren (“to frighten”) (see below).
Noun
scare (plural scares)
- A minor fright.
- A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread.
- a food-poisoning scare
- A device or object used to frighten.
Synonyms
- fright
Related terms
- scary
Translations
See also
- scarecrow
Etymology 2
From Middle English scaren, skaren, scarren, skeren, skerren, from Old Norse skirra (“to frighten; to shrink away from, shun; to prevent, avert”), from Proto-Germanic *skirzijan? (“to shoo, scare off”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to swing, jump, move”). Related to Old Norse skjarr (“timid, shy, afraid of”). Cognate with Scots skar (“wild, timid, shy”), dialectal Norwegian Nynorsk skjerra, dialectal Swedish skjarra and possibly Old Armenian ??? (c?i?, “wild ass”).
Verb
scare (third-person singular simple present scares, present participle scaring, simple past and past participle scared)
- To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.
- 1995, The Langoliers
- (Laurel Stevenson) Would you please be quiet? You're scaring the little girl.
- (Craig Toomey) Scaring the little girl?! Scaring the little girl?! Lady!
- 1995, The Langoliers
Synonyms
- frighten
- terrify
- See also Thesaurus:frighten
Translations
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Adjective
scare (comparative more scare, superlative most scare)
- lean; scanty
Anagrams
- CERAs, Cares, Ceras, Cesar, Crase, Creas, Races, SERCA, acers, acres, cares, carse, caser, ceras, crase, e-cars, races, sacre, serac, sérac
French
Etymology
From Latin scarus (also genus name Scarus), from Ancient Greek ?????? (skáros).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ska?/
Noun
scare m (plural scares)
- parrotfish
Further reading
- “scare” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- âcres, caser, César, crase, créas, races, sacre, sacré
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awe
English
Etymology
From Middle English aw, awe, agh, aw?e, borrowed from Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“terror, dread”). Displaced native Middle English eye, ey?e, ay?e, e??e, from Old English ege, æge (“fear, terror, dread”), from the same Proto-Germanic root.
Pronunciation
- In non-rhotic accents:
- enPR: ô, IPA(key): /??/
- Homophones: oar, or, ore, o'er
- In rhotic accents:
- (US) enPR: ô, IPA(key): /?/
- Homophone: aw
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: ä, IPA(key): /?/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
awe (usually uncountable, plural awes)
- A feeling of fear and reverence.
- A feeling of amazement.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV
- For several minutes no one spoke; I think they must each have been as overcome by awe as was I. All about us was a flora and fauna as strange and wonderful to us as might have been those upon a distant planet had we suddenly been miraculously transported through ether to an unknown world.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV
- (archaic) Power to inspire awe.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
awe (third-person singular simple present awes, present participle awing or aweing, simple past and past participle awed)
- (transitive) To inspire fear and reverence in.
- (transitive) To control by inspiring dread.
Synonyms
- (inspire reverence): enthral, enthrall; overwhelm
Derived terms
- awed
Translations
Anagrams
- AEW, EAW, WAE, WEA, eaw, wae
Mapudungun
Adverb
awe (using Raguileo Alphabet)
- quickly, promptly.
- soon
Synonyms
- arol
References
- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English ?owu.
Noun
awe
- Alternative form of ewe
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ég?os. Doublet of eye.
Alternative forms
- aw, ahe, au, aue, aghe, age, a?e
Pronunciation
- (Early ME) IPA(key): /?a???/
- IPA(key): /?au?(?)/
- Rhymes: -au?(?)
Noun
awe (uncountable)
- awe, wonder, reverence
- fear, horror
- that which elicits or incites horror; something horrifying
Related terms
- agheful
- aghlich (rare)
- awles (rare)
- awen (rare)
Descendants
- English: awe
- Scots: awe, aw
References
- “aue, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-11.
Etymology 3
From Old English onwe?, awe?.
Adverb
awe
- Alternative form of away
Papiamentu
Alternative forms
- awé (alternative spelling)
Etymology
From Portuguese hoje and Spanish hoy and Kabuverdianu ochi.
Pronoun
awe
- today
Swahili
Verb
awe
- inflection of -wa:
- third-person singular subjunctive affirmative
- m-wa class subject inflected singular subjunctive affirmative
Western Arrernte
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aw?/
Interjection
awe
- yes
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