Definitions for affray

affray af·fray

Spelling: [uh-frey]
IPA: /əˈfreɪ/

Affray is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in affray (aaffry).

Definitions for affray

noun

  1. a public fight; a noisy quarrel; brawl.
  2. Law. the fighting of two or more persons in a public place.

verb (used with object)

  1. Archaic. to frighten.

Origin of affray

1275-1325; Middle English Anglo-French afray (noun), afrayer (v.), Old French esfrei (noun), esfreer (v.) Vulgar Latin *exfridāre to break the peace, equivalent to ex- ex-<

Examples for affray

Hanson had learned all about the affray, as everyone else in town seemed to have done.

A white man and a colored woman were indicted for an affray.

She dragged the girl away out of sight, and left her while she returned to the affray.

But in many a tent there were drinking and gambling, and more than one affray.

Many Indians were killed or wounded in this affray, but it is not known how many.

The affray had burst over the slumbering town like a thunderclap.

And then there was their own resentment as to that affray at Scumberg's.

That we had some hurt of such an affray goes without saying.

Who struck the first blow in the affray on the pier with Thornton?

This was by no means a terrifying conclusion to men inured to affray.

Word Value for affray
Scrable

15

Words with friends

14

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