scare up

verb

scared up; scaring up; scares up

transitive verb

: to find or get together with considerable labor or difficulty : scrape up

managed to scare up the money

Synonyms

• ascertain
• descry
• detect
• determine
• dig out
• dig up
• discover
• dredge (up)
• ferret (out)
• find
• find out
• get
• hit (on or upon)
• hunt (down or up)
• learn
• locate
• nose out
• root (out)
• rout (out)
• rummage
• run down
• scout (up)
• track (down)
• turn up

Examples of scare up in a Sentence

I can probably scare up my old textbooks if you need them.

Recent Examples on the Web

On March 8, a Saturday night Lakers-Celtics game on ABC scared up 1.85 million members of the dollar demo, a turnout that more than quadrupled the Big Four’s primetime average. —Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 25 Apr. 2025

The Rookie has scared up another reason to subject Nolan, Harper et al to documentary cameras. —Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 19 Apr. 2025

According to Sloan, the RSNs and various in-market affiliates that carry MLB packages will scare up more ad dollars than the league’s national partners, a function of sheer volume and outsized fan engagement. —Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 28 Mar. 2025

Meanwhile, the championship game of the NHL’s 4 Nations Face-Off scared up the month’s biggest cable audience, with 9.25 million viewers tuning in to ESPN for the U.S-Canada rematch. —Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 19 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1841, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for scare up

• buttercup
• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup

Kids Definition

scare up

verb

: to find or get together with much labor or difficulty

managed to scare up the money