scare

Object

• bejesus: Psyched up and raring to go after the 4 minute cannon ( which scared the bejesus out of me having never heard it before!
• pant: The Kaled soldiers scared the pants off me at the time.
• hell: Regardless of actual party politics, it is the creeping erosion of norms which scares the hell out of me.
• outta: I'm not that far in FEAR yet, scares the **** outta me!
• heck: Some say I play the puck well, but others say that I scare the heck out of them when I leave the crease.

Converse of object

• survive: Soon afterward Tranmere survived the first major scare in their own goal-mouth.

Adjective modifier

• Red: The paranoia over Bolshevism, the " Red Scare " of 1919, engendered an atmosphere of mistrust and intolerance in American society.

Adjective complement

• witless: It was Railtrack which had been scared witless by the threat.
• stiff: But now there were a few seconds before they left for the church and Sarah was scared stiff.

Noun used with modifier

• anthrax: Recent anthrax scares in the US have shown the dangers of covert chemical warfare.
• bomb: Bomb scares in the Dublin area meant the earlier tour went to Sligo, the only route available pending the all clear.
• airship: It is actually easier to trace the development of the UFO mythos to the British airship scare of 1912-13.
• saucer: The first case listed was that of Kenneth Arnold, a Boise businessman, who had set off the saucer scare.
• invasion: The major national invasion scare occurred on the night of September 7th 1940.

Followed by a transitive particle

• off: They are urging Rover workers to take no further action in case it scares off a possible buyer.

Preposition: of

• spider: In other words, more people are scared of spiders than are scared of death itself.

Modifies a noun

• mongering: Despite all the scare mongering about rent, they need to acquire more space.
• tactic: Whatever his motive, Blair used scare tactics to push Parliament into Iraq.
• story: The next day, the media were full of scare stories about ' gas attacks ' on the Tube.