Usually means: Make afraid; frighten; scare someone.
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  1. affear: Collins English Dictionary
  2. affear: Wordnik
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  4. Affear: Dictionary.com
  5. Affear: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. affear: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Affear: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. affear: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Affear: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ verb:  (archaic) To frighten, to scare; to terrify.

Similar:
afear, fright, effray, terrifie, feare, adread, fear, indread, Gallow, grue, more...

Types:
be scared of, have phobiof, be petrified of, be terrified of, more...

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Similar:
afear, fright, effray, terrifie, feare, adread, fear, indread, Gallow, grue, more...

Types:
be scared of, have phobiof, be petrified of, be terrified of, more...



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