freighten

English

Verb

freighten (third-person singular simple present freightens, present participle freightening, simple past and past participle freightened)

  1. Obsolete form of frighten.
    • 1741, The Champion:
      […] soon after he had taken out a Writ, he made a Thing, which they call, I think, a Declaration, in which there was a Set of Words sufficient to freighten a Man, not over-timorous, out of his Wits, […]
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