AFFEAR

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AFFEAR

Definition: AFFEAR

AFFEAR

Transitive verb

1. To frighten.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "AFFEAR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

"AFFEAR" is a common misspelling or typo for: afar, affair, affairs, affirm, after.

Anagrams: AFFEAR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-f-f-r"
	-2 letters: afar, area, fare, fear, frae, raff.
	-3 letters: aff, are, arf, ear, eff, era, far, fer, ref.
	-4 letters: aa, ae, ar, ef, er, fa, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-f-f-r"
	+1 letter: affaire, agraffe, fanfare.
	+2 letters: affaires, affrayed, affrayer, agraffes, fanfares, farfalle, taffarel.
	+3 letters: affrayers, affricate, farfalles, rafflesia, taffarels.
	+4 letters: affirmable, affirmance, affordable, affricates, paraffined, rafflesias.
	+5 letters: affirmances, affirmative, affricative, fanfaronade, trafficable.
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Alternative Orthography: AFFEAR

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 46 46 45 41 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.- ..-. ..-. . .- .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000110 01000110 01000101 01000001 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#70 &#70 &#69 &#65 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0046 0046 0045 0041 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

354040393552

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography

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