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The meaning of SCARE UP is to find or get together with considerable labor or difficulty : scrape up. How to use scare up in a sentence.
to find or get something despite difficulties or limited supplies: There's hardly any food in the house, but I'll scare something up from these leftovers. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Creating and producing. anti-creative. artefact. attribute something to someone. bang something out. bash. crank. generative. generativity.
If you scare up something, you provide, produce, or obtain it, often when it is difficult to do so or when you do not have many resources. [ mainly US , informal ] An all-star game might scare up a little interest.
To gather or prepare something with a lot of effort or ingenuity: They managed to scare up some folding chairs for the unexpected crowd. I'll go in the kitchen and try to scare something up from among the leftovers.
Assemble or produce with considerable effort, as in We managed to scare up extra chairs for the unexpectedly large audience , or He managed to scrape together enough cash to buy two more tickets .
1. to fill or be filled with fear or alarm. 2. ( tr; often foll by away or off) to drive (away) by frightening. 3. ( tr) informal ( foll by up) a. to produce (a meal) quickly from whatever is available. b. to manage to find (something) quickly or with difficulty: brewers need to scare up more sales. n. 4. a sudden attack of fear or alarm.
Definition of scare up phrasal verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
