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scareheading

scareheading is the present participle and gerund of scarehead.

Meaning of scarehead

Verb

scarehead (third-person singular simple present scareheads, present participle scareheading, simple past and past participle scareheaded)

  1. To write an alarming or sensational headline about.
    • As soon as my dead body is found the newspapers will want to know why I did it. I'll tell them. And they may scarehead it as much as they like.1923, ???, “The Young Man Who Wanted to Die”, in Weird Tales^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Weird_Tales_v01n01_(1923-03).djvu/136), page 135

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Questions about scareheading

What is scareheading the present participle and gerund of?
Scareheading is the present participle and gerund of scarehead.

Words near scareheading in the dictionary

  1. scarefire
  2. scarefires
  3. scareful
  4. scarehead
  5. scareheaded
  6. scareheading
  7. scareheads
  8. scareless
  9. scarelore
  10. scaremonger
  11. scaremongered

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