Usually means: Causing fear or terror intentionally.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. affrighting: Merriam-Webster
  2. affrighting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. affrighting: Vocabulary.com
  4. affrighting: Wordnik
  5. affrighting: Wiktionary
  6. Affrighting, affrighting: Dictionary.com
  7. Affrighting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Affrighting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. affrighting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. affrighting: FreeDictionary.org
  11. affrighting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. affrighting: Legal dictionary

(Note: See affright as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (affright)

noun:  (archaic) Great fear, terror, fright.
verb:  (archaic, transitive) To inspire fright in; to frighten, to terrify.
adjective:  afraid; terrified; frightened
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