effray

English

Etymology

From Middle French effrayer.

Verb

effray (third-person singular simple present effrays, present participle effraying, simple past and past participle effrayed)

  1. (obsolete) To frighten, startle.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:
      Their dam vpstart, out of her den effraide, / And rushed forth […]

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