affright

affright is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 18 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm.
2. participial adjective. Affrighted.
3. noun. Sudden and great fear; terror. It expresses a stronger impression than fear, or apprehension, perhaps less than terror.
4. noun. The act of frightening; also, a cause of terror; an object of dread.
5. noun. an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety

   Synonyms: panic, terror

6. verb. cause fear in

   "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"

   "Ghosts could never affright her"

   Synonyms: fright, frighten, scare

Synonyms

panic, terror, fright, frighten, scare

Common word forms

affrights, affrighted, affrighter, affrightful, affrighting, affrightment

Words from these letters

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