"scare someone to death" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-scare someone to death.ogg Forms: scares someone to death [present, singular, third-person], scaring someone to death [participle, present], scared someone to death [participle, past], scared someone to death [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} scare someone to death (third-person singular simple present scares someone to death, present participle scaring someone to death, simple past and past participle scared someone to death)
  1. (idiomatic) To frighten someone very much. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Fear Related terms: scare the pants off of, scare out of one's wits, scare the hell out of, scare the hell out of someone
    Sense id: en-scare_someone_to_death-en-verb-AgcxfPH9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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