Word Meanings - AFFEAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To frighten. Spenser.
Related words: (words related to AFFEAR)
- FRIGHTEN
To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify. More frightened than hurt. Old Proverb. (more info) Etym: - SPENSERIAN
Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faƫrie Queene." - DISPENSER
One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors. - AFFRIGHTEN
To frighten. "Fit tales . . . to affrighten babes." Southey.