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scaring
verb
Present participle of scare
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The word 'scaring' is correct and usable in written English.
The verb form of 'scare' is often used in the gerund form as 'scaring', usually to refer to the cause of fear or anxiety among a group of people or an individual. For example: "The effects of climate change are scaring the population."
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The teenager emailed: "Dude, you're scaring me... please don't do this.
They all say a British EU exit ("Brexit" in diplomatic speak) would make all of them poorer by scaring off investment and hurting trade.
A major geopolitical shift has happened all the same: Vladimir Putin's war in the Donbass has had the unintended consequence of scaring ruling elites elsewhere, who now see drawing closer to Europe as a way of countering Russia's regional appetites.
Radio 1 controller, Ben Cooper, congratulated Grimshaw for "scaring off the over-30s", who accounted for around 90% of the dip in his listening figures.
"I'm pleased that Grimmy is doing what I've asked of him by keeping his young audience happy and scaring off the over-30s".
"My guess is that if it works, it is through the mechanism of scaring merchants into collecting and remitting [tax payments], because they know government has more information – which is very different than tracking down whether tax was submitted on each of thousands of registered receipts," says Mitchell Kane, Gerald L Wallace professor of taxation at NYU's School of Law.
In a non-sporting sense, the problems started in 1995 when Hurricane Luis ripped through the island, upturning houses and scaring off the holidaymakers upon whom the economy has become completely dependent.
Critics say this has already hurt Zimbabwe's economic recovery in the past two years and risks further scaring away investment.
And it is they, not the parties of the left, who are scaring the mainstream.The response of the political establishment to a tide of anti-European populism which draws on anti-immigrant feeling and antipathy towards Islam has mostly been to evoke the 1930s and hope for revulsion to take its course.
All of the main parties, terrified of scaring the electorate, campaigned on the basis that they would tighten the budget only modestly, in the full knowledge that far nastier medicine would be required.
Faced with the smiling president-elect, PO's well-worn strategy of scaring voters with the prospect of PiS's return is less convincing.
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