Affray: Definition and part of speech

Affray

  1. v. t. The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others.
  2. v. t. To startle from quiet; to alarm.
  3. v. t. To frighten; to scare; to frighten away.
  4. v. t. The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack.
  5. v. t. Alarm; terror; fright.
  6. v. t. A tumultuous assault or quarrel; a brawl; a fray.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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