scare off in English

verb

scare away, deter, frighten away, expel; cause to become afraid, cause to lose courage

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1. U.S. companies fear the red tape will scare off customers.

2. The new Democratic Party is not likely to scare off voters.

3. The Cowbell, which dates back to the Iron Age, is a bell worn by pastured or free-roaming livestock to scare off predators and to keep tabs on grazing herds

4. They have long, horn-like antennae over their eyes that they wave to scare off predators, and smaller antennae-like “Antennules” that sense movement and detect chemicals in the water

5. Freeman's crazy antics didn't scare off potential patients, though: John F. Kennedy's sister Rosemary got a lobotomy from Freeman, which left her a vegetable for the rest of her life.

6. ‘An odd Burliness possessed the feminine body frame as it strode through the student sleeping quarters on silent feet.’ ‘He tended to scare off little kids with his tallness and Burliness, but inside he was a nice man.’ ‘His strides were cumbersome, as if his height and Burliness …

7. And there is a kind of heroic resilience, a kind of plain-spoken pragmatism to those who start their day at 5 a.m. pulling water from a well and end it at midnight poised to beat a bucket with a stick and scare off wild boar that might mess with their potatoes, their only company a bit of homemade moonshine vodka.