effray
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French effrayer.
Verb
[edit]effray (third-person singular simple present effrays, present participle effraying, simple past and past participle effrayed)
- (obsolete) To frighten, startle.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Their dam vpstart, out of her den effraide, / And rushed forth […]