What does freighten mean?

freighten

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Obsolete

"[…] 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, […]"

freightens (present, singular) freightening (participle, present) freightened (participle, past) freightened (past)

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