effray
To frighten, startle.
Verb
- To frighten, startle.
- Their dam vpstart, out of her den effraide, / And rushed forth […] - 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
Origin
From Middle French effrayer.