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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
affrighten .
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And he advises not to suffer much shooting at wild fowl; for that, he says, affrightens, and harms, and destroys the fish.
The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation 1653
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