affright af·fright (ə-frīt') pronunciation af·fright (ə-frīt') pronunciation

affright	(verb) Cause fear in.
Synonyms:	frighten, scare
Usage:	Ghosts could never affright her.

affright
af·fright (ə-frīt')

tr.v., -fright·ed, -fright·ing, -frights.
To arouse fear in; terrify: "Many of nature's greatest oddities, that would affright dwellers up here, are accepted down there" (David Mazel).

n.

1. Great fear; terror.
2. A cause of terror.

[Middle English afrighten, from Old English āfyrhtan : ā-, intensive pref. + fyrhtan, to frighten (from fyrhto, fright).]