‘‘Oh my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted!’’
‘John was affrighted at the eager enjoyment - the appetite, as it were - with which he found himself inhaling the fragrance of the flowers.’
‘But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.’
‘Before him on the ground he felt the bundle which Sarah had fetched out of the house - his own knapsack and sketchbook - and affrighted, he stood upright again.’
‘If these are not mischief enough to affright thee, I know not what thou art.’
frightened, scared, scared stiff, terrified, fearful, petrified, nervous, scared to death
noun
mass nounarchaic
Fright.
‘the deer gazed at us in affright’
‘The words heard by the party upon the staircase were the Frenchman's exclamations of horror and affright, commingled with the fiendish jabberings of the brute.’
‘No wonder the wolves start back in affright; no wonder the vultures, after stooping low, ply their wings in quick nervous stroke, and soar up again!’
‘As she turned in affright she was confronted by a white man.’
‘Then, tottering down to the parlour, with a voice hollow from affright, and a face pale as death, she tremulously articulated, 'where is my sister?'’
‘Between him and the wife lies the young girl, who has fainted from affright.’
Origin
Late Middle English in early use from āfyrhted ‘frightened’ in Old English; later by vague form association with fright.
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