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Scared vs Scarer - What's the difference?

scared | scarer |

As an adjective scared

is having fear; afraid, frightened.

As a verb scared

is past tense of scare.

As a noun scarer is

one who, or that which, scares.

scared

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Having fear; afraid, frightened.
  • Synonyms

    * See

    Verb

    (head)
  • (scare)
  • Anagrams

    *

    scarer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, scares.
  • * 1894 , William Crooke, An Introduction to the Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India
  • The letter from a Raja is spotted with gold-leaf as a preservative, partly to divert the glance of fascination and partly because gold is a scarer of demons...
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 21, author=, title=Letters, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=However, if a child tells a parent that someone “scares me,” it certainly doesn’t seem prudent to tell the alleged scarer what the child has confided to the parent, even if that parent “trusts” the baby sitter at this point. }}

    Synonyms

    * frightener

    Anagrams

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