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Definition of scare into doing phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

scare into doing

phrasal verb
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scare somebody into doing something
  1. to frighten somebody in order to make them do something
    • Local businesses were scared into paying protection money.
    • They're just trying to scare us into letting out the secret.
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