Meanings
nounscarefire (plural scarefires)
plural scarefires · alternative skarefire
- obsoleteA fire causing alarm, i.e. a house-burning; conflagration; scathefire.
Scarefire of Purgatory
1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC
Origin
From scare + fire. In some senses, alteration of scathefire.
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scarefire. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scarefire
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“scarefire.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scarefire. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scarefire,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scarefire.
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