scarce
— Adverb
– English
~ almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was scarce sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"; "I can hardly hear what she is saying"; "she barely seemed to notice him"; "we were so far back in the theater, we could barely read the subtitles"
scarce
— Adverb
– English
~ only a very short time before; "we hardly knew them"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats
scarcely
— Adverb
– English
~ only a very short time before; "we hardly knew them"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats
scarcely
— Adverb
– English
~ almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was scarce sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"; "I can hardly hear what she is saying"; "she barely seemed to notice him"; "we were so far back in the theater, we could barely read the subtitles"
scarceness
— Noun
– English
~ a small and inadequate amount
scarcity
— Noun
– English
~ a small and inadequate amount
scare quote
— Noun
– English
~ the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology
scare
— Noun
– English
~ sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events; "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building"
scare away
— Verb
– English
~ cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal"
scare
— Verb
– English
~ cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal"
scare off
— Verb
– English
~ cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal"
scare
— Verb
– English
~ cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her"
scarecrow
— Noun
– English
~ an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds
scarecrowish
— Adjective
– English
~ resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged; "a forlorn scarecrowish figure"
scared
— Adjective
– English
~ made afraid; "the frightened child cowered in the corner"; "too shocked and scared to move"
scaremonger
— Noun
– English
~ a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble
scarer
— Noun
– English
~ an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds