scare away meaning

Definition of scare away

1. cause to lose courage
   • dashed by the refusal

   Synonyms: daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, frighten away, scare

   Type of: intimidate

scare away in a sentence

• Your random firing will scare away the prey.
• The tourists scare away the animals and disrupt their natural activity patterns.
• Your dog's barking scared away the intruder.
• Fire is useful for cooking food, keeping warm, scaring away wild animals and providing light.
• Mary's cat needs to hiss only once, to scare away the neighbours' dogs.

How to pronounce scare away

scare away is pronounced /skɛə əˈweɪ/ in British English and /skɛr əˈweɪ/ in American English. It has 3 syllables.