"effray" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle French effrayer.",
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      "form": "effrays",
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      "form": "effrayed",
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    {
      "form": "effrayed",
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          "word": "effrayable"
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          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Their dam vpstart, out of her den effraide, / And rushed forth […]",
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      "glosses": [
        "To frighten, startle."
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        "(obsolete) To frighten, startle."
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  "word": "effray"
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle French effrayer.",
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      "form": "effraying",
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      "form": "effrayed",
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        "(obsolete) To frighten, startle."
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