scare to death



scare you to death

(spoken)
to make you feel extremely frightened scare the hell out of you David suddenly appeared like a ghost in the doorway and scared me to death.
Related vocabulary: scare the pants off you
See also: death, scare

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Downs[daunz]
JudiJOO-deeEnglish
Sandip-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil
Sumit-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi
Pharamond-Literature, French (Rare)
Phestos-Biblical Greek