scares
SaySKAIRZUS/skɛɚz/UK/skɛəz/AUS/skeːz/
- 1Plural of scare.
The early months of the outbreak brought a series of health scares.
Investors weathered several market scares before the recovery took hold.
Note
Each scare is a countable episode, so the plural takes a plain -s: a run of health scares, several scares in one week. The same spelling is also the present-tense verb, as in the noise scares the cat. A number or determiner in front signals the noun. The old adjective scare, meaning lean or scanty, has no plural, so any scares is either this noun or that verb.
scares is a form of scare
scare, noun: A short-lived feeling of fright, usually mild and quickly over. Full entry
- Forms
- scarescares plural
- Spelling
- scare → scares: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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