"affrighten" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "a- + fright + -en",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "affrightens",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affrightening",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affrightened",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affrightened",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1794, Robert Southey, Frederic",
          "text": "Fit tales […] to affrighten babes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1810, George Crabbe, The Borough",
          "text": "He clung affrightened to his master's knee:",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To frighten."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "frighten",
          "frighten"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) To frighten."
      ],
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        "archaic"
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈfɹaɪtən/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "affrighten"
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "a- + fright + -en",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "affrightens",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affrightening",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affrightened",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affrightened",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1794, Robert Southey, Frederic",
          "text": "Fit tales […] to affrighten babes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1810, George Crabbe, The Borough",
          "text": "He clung affrightened to his master's knee:",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To frighten."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "frighten",
          "frighten"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) To frighten."
      ],
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        "archaic"
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈfɹaɪtən/"
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  "word": "affrighten"
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