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  1. scaring

    Fear is an intensely unpleasant emotion in response to perceiving or recognizing a danger or threat. Fear causes physiological changes that may produce behavioral reactions such as mounting an aggressive response or fleeing the threat. Fear in human beings may occur in response to a certain stimulus occurring in the present, or in anticipation or expectation of a future threat perceived as a risk to oneself. The fear response arises from the perception of danger leading to confrontation with or escape from/avoiding the threat (also known as the fight-or-flight response), which in extreme cases of fear (horror and terror) can be a freeze response or paralysis. In humans and other animals, fear is modulated by the process of cognition and learning. Thus, fear is judged as rational or appropriate and irrational or inappropriate. An irrational fear is called a phobia. Fear is closely related to the emotion anxiety, which occurs as the result of threats that are perceived to be uncontrollable or unavoidable. The fear response serves survival by engendering appropriate behavioral responses, so it has been preserved throughout evolution. Sociological and organizational research also suggests that individuals' fears are not solely dependent on their nature but are also shaped by their social relations and culture, which guide their understanding of when and how much fear to feel.Fear is sometimes incorrectly considered the opposite of courage. For the reason that courage is a willingness to face adversity, fear is an example of a condition that makes the exercise of courage possible.

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  1. Scaring

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of scaring in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of scaring in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of scaring in a Sentence

  1. Paul Offit:

    The American public should understand that there is a risk, but it's an exceedingly rare risk, by basically putting a scarlet letter on this vaccine, by scaring people about this vaccine, by not really trusting them to understand the concept of relative risk, we may have done more harm than good, and there are people now who won't get a vaccine because this is the vaccine they would have gotten.

  2. Mark Fitzgibbons:

    I don’t know any charity that would adopt this, but those who do will certainly be scaring their donors.

  3. Francis Collins:

    I think the term is terrible because it's scaring people and making it sound as if the vaccines don't work. Let me say very clearly : The vaccines are incredibly effective in preventing hospitalizations, severe cases -- over 90 %. So, let's not let the language get in the way of that.

  4. Jeff Goldstein:

    Andy Muschietti does an incredible job of scaring the stuffing out of audiences, i think our team, starting with New Line in making this and our marketing team in bringing it to audiences around the globe, have hit the mark right on. They nailed it.

  5. John Kasich:

    We don't need to be shouting and booing and scaring somebody who decided to stand up and have some sort of silent protest, what the heck is that about ? We're not in high school. I mean, this is not some god-darn high school basketball game where we're booing the other team.

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