effray
English
Etymology
From Middle French effrayer.
Verb
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 […]
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