scarecrow
/ˈskɛɚˌkɹoʊ/ verb C2- To cause (a person, their body, etc.) to look awkward and stiff, like a scarecrow (noun sense 1).
- To splay (one's arms) away from the body, like the arms of a scarecrow.
- To frighten or terrify (someone or something), as if using a scarecrow.
He/she/it scarecrows · Past scarecrowed · Past participle scarecrowed · -ing form scarecrowing
Verb forms
- Base form
- scarecrow
- He/she/it
- scarecrows
- Past
- scarecrowed
- Past participle
- scarecrowed
- -ing form
- scarecrowing
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The Scarecrow and the Woodman now began to fasten the mice to the truck, using the strings they had brought.
Even the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman could sit on it, and were drawn swiftly by their queer little horses to the place where the Lion lay asleep.
At first the little creatures, many though they were, could hardly stir the heavily loaded truck; but the Woodman and the Scarecrow both pushed from behind, and they got along better.
“Does he never go out?” asked the Scarecrow.
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