| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | af·fright |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -fr t |
| 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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