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• Red Scare, the
  1. a series of actions by the US government in 1919-20, against people who were believed to be Communists. Many US workers went on STRIKE (= stopped working to protest about their conditions) and the government was worried that there might be a REVOLUTION . Because of this, many people were ARREST ed and many foreigners were forced to leave the country.
• bomb scare (noun)
  1. when people have to be moved out of a building because there may be a bomb there
• red scare (noun)
  1. a period of general fear of communists
• scare off (verb)
  1. cause to lose courage
• scare quote (noun)
  1. the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology
• scare story (noun)
  1. a report, especially in a newspaper, that makes a situation seem more serious or worrying than it really is
• scare tactics (noun)
  1. methods of persuading people to do something by frightening them
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• scare away (phrasal verb)
  1. to make someone feel so frightened or worried that they do not do something that they had planned to do
  2. to make someone so frightened that they run away
• scare into (phrasal verb)
  1. scare someone into something to make someone feel so worried or frightened that they do something
• scare up (phrasal verb)
  1. to make something using the few things that are available
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