Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To confound; terrify.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To confound; to terrify; to amaze.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive, obsolete To confound; to terrify; to amaze.

Etymologies

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Cf. a- + whap (blow)

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