scare someone to death

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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.

Related terms

• scare the pants off of
• scare out of one's wits
• scare the hell out of, scare the hell out of someone