scare into

English

Pronunciation

  • Audio (US):(file)

Verb

scare into (third-person singular simple present scares into, present participle scaring into, simple past and past participle scared into)

  1. (transitive) To frighten (someone) to get them to do (something).
    John's warning scared me into getting to work on time.

See also

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.