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Definition of affright in English: affrightverb əˈfrʌɪtəˈfraɪt [with object]archaic Frighten (someone) ghosts could never affright her Example sentencesExamples - If these are not mischief enough to affright thee, I know not what thou art.
- John was affrighted at the eager enjoyment - the appetite, as it were - with which he found himself inhaling the fragrance of the flowers.
- Before him on the ground he felt the bundle which Sarah had fetched out of the house - his own knapsack and sketchbook - and affrighted, he stood upright again.
- But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
- ‘Oh my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted!’
Synonyms frightened, scared, scared stiff, terrified, fearful, petrified, nervous, scared to death
noun əˈfrʌɪtəˈfraɪt mass nounarchaic Fright. the deer gazed at us in affright Example sentencesExamples - The words heard by the party upon the staircase were the Frenchman's exclamations of horror and affright, commingled with the fiendish jabberings of the brute.
- Then, tottering down to the parlour, with a voice hollow from affright, and a face pale as death, she tremulously articulated, 'where is my sister?'
- As she turned in affright she was confronted by a white man.
- No wonder the wolves start back in affright; no wonder the vultures, after stooping low, ply their wings in quick nervous stroke, and soar up again!
- Between him and the wife lies the young girl, who has fainted from affright.
Origin Late Middle English: in early use from āfyrhted 'frightened' in Old English; later by vague form association with fright. Rhymes alight, alright, aright, bedight, bight, bite, blight, bright, byte, cite, dight, Dwight, excite, fight, flight, fright, goodnight, height, ignite, impolite, indict, indite, invite, kite, knight, light, lite, might, mite, night, nite, outfight, outright, plight, polite, quite, right, rite, sight, site, skintight, skite, sleight, slight, smite, Snow-white, spite, sprite, tight, tonight, trite, twite, underwrite, unite, uptight, white, wight, wright, write Definition of affright in US English: affrightverbəˈfrītəˈfraɪt [with object]archaic Frighten (someone) ghosts could never affright her Example sentencesExamples - If these are not mischief enough to affright thee, I know not what thou art.
- But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
- Before him on the ground he felt the bundle which Sarah had fetched out of the house - his own knapsack and sketchbook - and affrighted, he stood upright again.
- ‘Oh my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted!’
- John was affrighted at the eager enjoyment - the appetite, as it were - with which he found himself inhaling the fragrance of the flowers.
Synonyms frightened, scared, scared stiff, terrified, fearful, petrified, nervous, scared to death
nounəˈfrītəˈfraɪt archaic Fright. the deer gazed at us in affright Example sentencesExamples - The words heard by the party upon the staircase were the Frenchman's exclamations of horror and affright, commingled with the fiendish jabberings of the brute.
- Then, tottering down to the parlour, with a voice hollow from affright, and a face pale as death, she tremulously articulated, 'where is my sister?'
- Between him and the wife lies the young girl, who has fainted from affright.
- No wonder the wolves start back in affright; no wonder the vultures, after stooping low, ply their wings in quick nervous stroke, and soar up again!
- As she turned in affright she was confronted by a white man.
Origin Late Middle English: in early use from āfyrhted ‘frightened’ in Old English; later by vague form association with fright. |