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scare into

scare into verb: to frighten (someone) to get them to do (something).

Verb

scare into (third-person singular simple present scares into, present participle scaring into, simple past and past participle scared into)

  1. (transitive) To frighten (someone) to get them to do (something).
    • John's warning scared me into getting to work on time.

Forms of scare into

third-person singular presentscares into
present participlescaring into
past participlescared into
pastscared into

Questions about scare into

What does scare into mean?
Scare into means to frighten (someone) to get them to do (something).
What part of speech is scare into?
Scare into is a verb.
What is the past tense of scare into?
The past tense of scare into is scared into.

Words near scare into in the dictionary

  1. scare away
  2. scare campaign
  3. scare campaigns
  4. scare chord
  5. scare chords
  6. scare into
  7. scare line
  8. scare lines
  9. scare off
  10. scare quote
  11. scare quotes

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