agrise

See also: agrisé

English

Etymology

From Old English āgrīsan. Compare and see English grisly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɡɹaɪz/

Verb

agrise (third-person singular simple present agrises, present participle agrising, simple past and past participle agrised)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To shudder with horror; to tremble, to be terrified. [10th–16th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And powring forth their bloud in brutishe wize,
     That any yron eyes to see it would agrize.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To make tremble, to terrify. [13th–17th c.]

Anagrams

• Argies, Gaiers, Gaiser, aegirs, aigers, sagier

Spanish

Verb

agrise

1. inflection of agrisar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative