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effrays

effrays is the third-person singular simple present indicative of effray.

Meaning of effray

Verb

effray (third-person singular simple present effrays, present participle effraying, simple past and past participle effrayed)

  1. (obsolete) 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

Questions about effrays

What is effrays the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Effrays is the third-person singular simple present indicative of effray.

Words near effrays in the dictionary

  1. effranchising
  2. effray
  3. effrayable
  4. effrayed
  5. effraying
  6. effrays
  7. Effraz
  8. effrenate
  9. effrenation
  10. effront
  11. effronted

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