scare up
verb
scared up; scaring up; scares up
: to find or get together with considerable labor or difficulty : scrape up
managed to scare up the money
Examples of scare up in a Sentence
I can probably scare up my old textbooks if you need them.
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Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Only one celebrity will scare up the cherished Star Baker title.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Anna Faris and Regina Hall are scaring up a reunion.
—Katcy Stephan, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
The genre doesn’t usually travel well, but Weapons is an exception, scaring up strong results in normally horror-resistant markets in Europe and Latin America.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 10 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for scare up
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“Scare up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare%20up. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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