The word 'affright' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb which means to "frighten someone greatly". For example, "The loud crash affrighted the children so much they began to cry."
Or may we cram/Within this wooden O the very casques/That did affright the air at Agincourt?" His emphases spurred Kline, on his next pass, to stress the graphic contradiction between the cramped theatre and the vast fields, so that each phrase, as Kline hit the key words, made a vivid picture.
More than once doubting the protection of our rocky shield we retreated in affright, and it was only after repeated trials that we had confidence to pursue our investigations.
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning or affright The liberty that we'll enjoy tonight.
Are we to conceive them as a sort of ironclad van...ploughing ponderously onward through hedges of wire, over holes, over trenches to the bewilderment and affright of the Hun?' The hopeful reaction to the new machines naturally spurred interest in how they had been conceived and by whom.
"Dismay and affright were visible in almost every person's countenance," Mr. Carey wrote in a chapter that he titled: "General despondency.
"The old custom of shaking hands fell into such general disuse, that many shrank back with affright at even the offer of a hand".
The audience listened raptly to the opening words of Constantius, the king of the Britons — "Good Vortigern! as peace doth bless our isle, / And the loud din of war no more affrights us" — but by the third act its mood had shifted.
Melville wrote, in "Moby-Dick," that for all the associations the color white has "with whatever is sweet, and honorable, and sublime, there yet lurks an elusive something in the innermost idea of this hue, which strikes more of panic to the soul than that redness which affrights in blood".
Janusz Kaminski's camera presses along the edge of the violent, messy actions, or pitches into the middle of them, bucking, affrighted almost, but catching what it needs to catch as anguished movement churns on all sides.
They will not be affrighted by the next rollout of no-deal technical notices from the special cabinet meeting this Thursday.
A grievous vision is declared unto me.... My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me".
