scare up

scare up
transitive verb
: to find by persistent effort : bring to light or get together with labor : scrape up

managed to scare up enough food to fill a freight car — Robert Rice

scare up a light supper for unexpected guests

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scare up
1. To beat up (game) (US and dialect)
2. To hunt out
3. To produce (eg a meal) quickly, to rustle up (informal)
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Main Entry:scare

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ˌscare ˈup [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they scare up he/she/it scares up present participle scaring up past tense scared up past participle scared up] american informal phrasal verb
to make something using the few things that are available
Thesaurus: to make something start to exist or happensynonym
Main entry: scare

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scare up [phrasal verb]
scare (someone or something) up or scare up (someone or something) US, informal : to find or get (someone or something) with some difficulty

We managed to scare up [=scrape up] the money.

Let's try to scare up some people to play football.

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Main Entry:scare

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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