AFFRIGHT

 Dictionary entry overview: What does affright mean? 

• AFFRIGHT (noun)
  The noun AFFRIGHT has 1 sense:

1. an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety

  Familiarity information: AFFRIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

• AFFRIGHT (verb)
  The verb AFFRIGHT has 1 sense:

1. cause fear in

  Familiarity information: AFFRIGHT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFFRIGHT (noun)

Meaning:

An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

affright; panic; terror

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))

• AFFRIGHT (verb)

Meaning:

Cause fear in

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

affright; fright; frighten; scare

Context examples:

The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me / Ghosts could never affright her

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