Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To terrify; alarm.
  • Afflicted; distressed.

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Examples

  • I am mellow, and yellow, and um ... light? er, white? maybe aflight?

    Archive 2008-02-01 kittenpie 2008

  • I am mellow, and yellow, and um ... light? er, white? maybe aflight?

    This is Your Brain on Drugs kittenpie 2008

  • One method would be to book aflight immediately to Montego Bay and enjoy Caribbean sunsets and Bay Breezes indefinitely.

    Buzzine » Let the Flood Gates Open 2009

  • Baby-boomer spiritualism is always aflight, never settling anywhere.

    Living-Room Crusaders 2008

  • Then we saw each other all decked out and the butterflies we each felt were all set aflight by the paparazzi atmosphere.

    badger Diary Entry badger 2004

  • He did not want to think about what that would have meant for poor Tadrith if the basket regained its normal weight in a single moment while aflight.

    The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996

  • He did not want to think about what that would have meant for poor Tadrith if the basket regained its normal weight in a single moment while aflight.

    The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996

  • Immensities of forest, prairie, savannah, splendor of horned beasts and lethally graceful predators, birds in their tens of thousands aflight across the sky.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • Immensities of forest, prairie, savannah, splendor of horned beasts and lethally graceful predators, birds in their tens of thousands aflight across the sky.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • Kili, who had almost trapped him once before, with a much smaller force aflight, was streaking to a pitch a thousand feet above the other six, screaming commands.

    The Black Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1994

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