English Dictionary

scarecrow

/ˈskɛəkɹəʊ/

verb

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.

The scarecrow scared away the birds.

意味（1）

To cause (a person, their body, etc.) to look awkward and stiff, like a scarecrow (noun sense 1).

意味（2）

To splay (one's arms) away from the body, like the arms of a scarecrow.

With his stiff, awkward body, his knees bent, his arms scarecrowed far to either side, he had acted it all out, had been Adam trembling in the garden of his lost innocence, Moses on Sinai, Jahweh creating the heavens and the earth; […]

意味（3）

To frighten or terrify (someone or something), as if using a scarecrow.

[T]hat old acquaintance, […] is neither lullabied with thy sweete Papp, nor ſcarre-crowed with thy ſower hatchet.

意味（4）

(archaic) To spoil the appearance of (something, such as the landscape or a view), as scarecrows may be regarded as doing.

Fatigued and hungry as our party were after a long drive through the desolate region of malaria, wild buffaloes, wild birds, and yet wilder specimens of the human race, which here and there scare-crow the broad, sadly picturesque expanse between the last cork-trees near Salerno, and the treeless vicinage of the temple of Neptune, we dared not venture upon fish with green bones,—the only dish served up for our repast; […] we all preferred bearing our hunger, and traversing a second time the fiery plain unrefreshed, to breaking our fast upon such suspicious diet; […]