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scare up verb phrase To arouse or startle (especially game).

1937 Hall Coll (Cades Cove TN) The storm scared us up. I told the preacher if he was goin’ to ax a blessin’, he had to do it while we was gittin’ the grub out. 1958 Hall Coll (Del Rio TN) That scared the officer up, and he decided it wouldn’t be safe for that to be brought out. 1998 Dante OHP-61 They got scared up and moved. 2008 Rosie Hicks 4 [The pumpkins] bust theirself open and scared up a rabbit.