Verb
cause to lose courage
Source: WordNetOf course, nobody's tearing my door down. If you're successful you're going to intimidate and scare off the people you'd like to spend time with. They're not going to approach you. And the ones who do are often there because you are a celebrity. Betty White
See, you have to marry me. I seem to scare off all the help. Lynsay Sands
Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. I therefore resolved not to have any equations at all. In the end, however, I did put in one equation, Einstein's famous equation, E = mc^2. I hope that this will not scare off half of my potential readers. Stephen Hawking
dashed by the refusal Source: Internet
Chinese New Year dragon and lion dances are intended particularly to scare off evil spirits and bring good fortune to the community. Source: Internet
Barring that, write your creepy symbols on your car to scare off the other weirdos "Sorry, Satan's symbol out front shoulda told ya - I'm taken" Source: Internet