affright
Example Sentences
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Entire towns and neighborhoods need not be affrighted They may complain of lack of power, but they’ll safely be delighted.
From Washington Post
Somehow the “sham-palace” has come to fit right in on Park Avenue; horses do not bolt and women do not shrink affrighted.
From New York Times
But it was no use; those two frocks affrighted her courage with their deadness.
From Project Gutenberg
Seized with affright, the Jewish soldiers fled, pursued by Ali's men.
From Project Gutenberg
What a spring when You taste its fierce biting; Steel chain affrighting, You scream in your anguish, A mute thing by kind!
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
