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 Faërie Queene."
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• AFFRIGHTEN
  To frighten. "Fit tales . . . to affrighten babes." Southey.