Affray is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for AFFRAY in dictionary:

VERB:
• to disturb or frighten
• To startle from quiet; to alarm.
• To frighten; to scare; to frighten away.
• The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack.
• Alarm; terror; fright.
• A tumultuous assault or quarrel; a brawl; a fray.
• The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others.
• frighten
NOUN:
• an instance of group fighting in a public place that disturbs the peace
• noisy fight, brawl
• noisy quarrel
• a noisy fight
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to frighten

Words related to AFFRAY

affrayed18 affrayer17 affrayers18 affraying19 affrays16 effray15

Words that contain AFFRAY

affrays16 affrayed18 affrayer17 affrayers18 affraying19

How to use AFFRAY in a sentence

• I have since often met Stephen Gobel, and we have had many a laugh together over our love affair and the affray at the school-house.
• Why was it, too, that she now felt so tired? It seemed to her as if she had just returned from some long walk, from some accident, from some affray in which she had been bruised.
• The affray between the Foxes and Menomonies turns out thus.
• The two Italians were invisible, and the little affray up-stairs seemed to have attracted no attention at all.
• To atone for dragging them into the affray I call attention to the highly deferential and decorative manner in which I referred to them.
• Their object, he said, in the affray, was to make themselves free.
• Yet you, a wretched sleeper, with only a thin plank of wood between you and the affray, hear nothing, absolutely nothing.
• Both nations seized their arms, and rushing out of the houses, a bloody affray took place, several being left dead on the spot.
• Having well filled their ammunition pouches they once more became eager for the affray.
• In my youth my father was killed in an affray and my mother took his place, seizing many prisoners and exacting from them ransom.
• The place was still in a turmoil, the consequences no doubt of the affray expressly begun by Colonel Annesley to befriend me.
• Moreover, not one of the witnesses has seen the body of a single civilian at the place where the affray happened.
• And indeed, as at that time, Brother Thomas spake not in his belly except to make sport and affray the simple people, soon turning their fears to mirth.
• Suppose an affray occurred and I shot a tenant, I should be most assuredly identified, tried, convicted, and severely punished, if not hanged.
• The affray took place in Cheapside, and Duket, fearing he had killed his man, sought sanctuary in Bow Church.
• He had been a principal in more than one shooting affray, and experience had taught him the value of instantaneous action.
• I had to fly back to Rome, disguised as a friar, on account of a stabbing affray.
• Moore, a young surgeon from England, who had accompanied him up the river, and whose conduct throughout this disastrous affray was most admirable.
• Such were the particulars collected from the men after their return from this affray.
• At Easton, a mob undertook to break up the election, but was driven off, and in the affray one of the attacking party named Cook was mortally wounded.
• He had been hurt in an affray with some watchmen in the night of the 17th of March last.
• They there fell into an affray with the young men of the place, a hardy if not a hard set, who regarded their presence there, at their own favorite resort, as an intrusion.
• The residence of the Lady, and the scene of the affray at her bridal, is said, by old people, to have been upon the banks of the Cadden, near to where it joins the Tweed.
• The domestic animals accompanying the expedition were so scattered by the noise of the affray, that it was impossible again to collect and recover them.
• Not the least hint of her demeanour of the ineffable affray of the afternoon.
• It was supposed that thirty of the natives were killed in this unfortunate affray.
• It will be recollected that five men got between decks from aloft, during the affray, and four only were seen to quit the ship afterward in the boat.
• If they engage in the conspiracy and stimulate the treason, they may keep their bodies from the affray without saving their necks from a halter.
• First of all, there was a claim for the surrender of an Englishman to be put to death, because a Chinese had lost his life in an affray.
• The husband of this unfortunate woman had, about a year before, been mortally wounded in a chance affray between the partisans of the lords of Hers and Stramen.
• Hearing what was happening, he rose immediately to his feet to enter the chamber and put an end to the affray.
• While on the steamboat an altercation arose between two of the soldiers, and the deceased interfered to prevent, as is alleged, an affray.
• The natives, who had been spectators of the affray, were much perplexed.

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