"waterfright" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From water + fright. Compare Old English wæterfyrhtness (“fear of water, hydrophobia”).",
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          "ref": "1927, William Ellery Leonard, The Locomotive-God, page 279",
          "text": "Possibly the foundation was subconscious memories of two water-frights, one on the ocean at six, one on a pond at thirteen ; but these were in themselves unimportant; and I have found, in my subconscious, few ideational or emotional associations.",
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          "ref": "2010, Frank J. Lipp, The Mixe of Oaxaca: Religion, Ritual, and Healing",
          "text": "Others describe water fright as a condition marked by aversion to being bathed, cold, damp skin,and hyperkinesis, and yet others by fever and cold sweating even though the child is bundled and placed in the sun.",
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          "ref": "2014, Joan Price, Do It Yourself Dog Grooming, page 4",
          "text": "Leaving your dog sitting in dirty water will get its ears acclimatized to the sound of running water and kill this water fright it has.",
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          "ref": "2018, Garry W. Trompf, Gunner B. Mikkelsen, Jay Johnston, The Gnostic World",
          "text": "By doing so, he wanted to produce a waterfright in Truman to prevent him from crossing the sea behind which he could find an exit from the false world.",
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          "text": "However, once you get the water-fright it is almost incurable, and perhaps not worth writing about.",
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        "A fear of water; aquaphobia."
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