Read the dictionary definition of scare. All definitions for this word.
1. a sudden attack of fear
2. sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
1. panic in the stock market
2. a war scare
3. a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building
3. cause fear in
1. The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me
2. Ghosts could never affright her
4. cause to lose courage
1. dashed by the refusal