affright. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

affright

SYLLABICATION:	af·fright
PRONUNCIATION:	-frt
TRANSITIVE VERB:	Inflected forms: af·fright·ed, af·fright·ing, af·frights To arouse fear in; terrify: “Many of nature's greatest oddities, that would affright dwellers up here, are accepted down there” (David Mazel).
NOUN:	1. Great fear; terror. 2. A cause of terror.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English afrighten, from Old English fyrhtan : -, intensive pref. + fyrhtan, to frighten (from fyrhto, fright).
OTHER FORMS:	af·frightment —NOUN


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