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scare away

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Verb1.scare away - cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal"
intimidate, restrain - to compel or deter by or as if by threats
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? scare away
vt sepverscheuchen; peopleverjagen


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"I'm not feeling well," said the Scarecrow, with a smile, "for it is very tedious being perched up here night and day to scare away crows.
It warn't no trouble to see that he WANTED to talk about it, but always along at first he would scare away from it when he got on the very edge of it, and go to talking about something else.
There is yet, in the Temple, something of a clerkly monkish atmosphere, which public offices of law have not disturbed, and even legal firms have failed to scare away.
 
 
 
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