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AFFRIGHT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety

Synonyms:

affright; panic; terror

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("affright" is a kind of...):

fear; fearfulness; fright (an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "affright"):

swivet (a panic or extreme discomposure)

Derivation:

affright (cause fear in)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause fear in

Example:

Ghosts could never affright her

Synonyms:

affright; fright; frighten; scare

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "affright" is one way to...):

excite; shake; shake up; stimulate; stir (stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of)

Cause:

dread; fear (be afraid or scared of; be frightened of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "affright"):

bluff (frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is)

awe (inspire awe in)

terrify; terrorise; terrorize (fill with terror; frighten greatly)

intimidate (make timid or fearful)

alarm; appal; appall; dismay; horrify (fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised)

consternate (fill with anxiety, dread, dismay, or confusion)

spook (frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The bad news will affright him

Derivation:

affright (an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety)

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