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scared into

scared into is the simple past and past participle of scare into.

Meaning of scare into

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.

Questions about scared into

What is scared into the simple past and past participle of?
Scared into is the simple past and past participle of scare into.

Words near scared into in the dictionary

  1. scarecrows
  2. scarecrowy
  3. scared
  4. scared away
  5. scared green
  6. scared into
  7. scared off
  8. scared pink
  9. scared red
  10. scared shirtless
  11. scared shitless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scared into (page history and authors); scare into (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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