Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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affright | Yes | No | Yes | No |
alarm | Yes | No | Yes | No |
affright (noun) | alarm (noun) |
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an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety | a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event |
a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time | |
an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger | |
fear resulting from the awareness of danger |
affright (verb) | alarm (verb) |
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cause fear in | warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness |
fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised |