Affright is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for AFFRIGHT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to frighten
• frighten (someone)
• To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm.
• cause fear in
• frighten
NOUN:
• Sudden and great fear; terror. It expresses a stronger impression than fear, or apprehension, perhaps less than terror.
• The act of frightening; also, a cause of terror; an object of dread.
• an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
• sudden terror
• fright

Words related to AFFRIGHT

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Words that contain AFFRIGHT

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How to use AFFRIGHT in a sentence

• At the flash and report of the rifle, the animal leaped high into the air, bounded in affright this way and that for a moment, and then straightened itself for the woods.
• The deer only increased the length of his bounds, and he too went plunging through the old woods, snorting in astonishment, and huge affright at what he had seen and heard.
• His arrival checked the Pompeians, and encouraged our men to recover from their extreme affright.
• The affright of the stadtholderess during the short reign of anarchy and terror was without bounds.
• I started up in affright, for I really believed that I was surrounded by enemies, and that I was delivered up into their power, without any chance of help or assistance.
• Alone with the mutilated dead! One night he sprang up in affright at the sound of something moving or scratching at a log outside his cabin.
• If any one had foretold that I could listen without the least affright to news of an invading army marching on our walls, this would have seemed to me impossible.
• To help his courage and her own she forced herself to gaze straight into his eyes, but reading the affright in hers he stood dumb and turned red.
• Hear how a ghost in dead of night, With saucer eyes of fire, In woeful wise did sore affright A wit and courtly squire.
• Richards and her daughter, who, in much affright, were searching for the recent occupants of the reception-room.
• From these she would turn in affright, and hasten away as fast as her trembling limbs could bear her.
• With cries of affright, they glanced around and seeing who was attacking them, they were more startled than ever.
• It was then his turn to utter a shriek of affright, which availed him nothing.
• At last it was so near that the travellers started back in affright, with eyes shut, hair on end, and fully believing their last hour had come.
• The challenge did I accept, but they could not me affright.
• This scenic effect, admirable to an artist, was lost on a girl waking in affright and startled by unfamiliar surroundings.
• Ascending accordingly to the second-floor, he found there a fair lady reclining on a couch, who started up in affright at his appearance.
• Consternation and affright are depicted on their countenances.
• Between him and the wife lies the young girl, who has fainted from affright.
• It was some seconds, so startled was I, before I could find words to ask her the cause of her affright.
• Forgues says that enough of them are to be met with in the forests of Paraguay to affright the bravest man, but it is more difficult to avoid them than to see them.
• Presently Suzanne uttered a cry and recoiled with affright from a thicket of blackberries.
• So dreadful is the tempest that the gods in affright ascend for protection to the heaven of Anu.
• Do good, I say, or day and night I hourly thus will thee affright.
• Sometimes I do affright many simple people, for which some have termed me the Black Dog of Newgate.
• And mountainous billows affright, Nor power nor wealth can avail us, But skilful industry steers right.
• The noise he had made, slight though it was, aroused the occupant, and, as she started up in affright, Arch met the soft, pleading eyes of Margie Harrison.
• In the full conviction that the foul fiend had taken him at his word, Dan was dragged from the hut, wan, speechless, and gasping with affright.
• The shadows which affright us are of our own making.

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