• IPA: /əˈfɹeɪ/

affray (affrays, present participle affraying; past and past participle affrayed)

1. (archaic, transitive) To startle from quiet; to alarm.
   • 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, Parlement of Foules:

     Smale foules a great heap / That had afrayed me out of my sleep.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

2. (archaic, transitive) To frighten; to scare; to frighten away.
   • c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene v]:

     That voice doth us affray.

• afraid

affray

1. The act of suddenly disturbing anyone; an assault or attack.
   • 2015, 8 November, "Rugby league journalist Gary Carter critically ill after Bethnal Green attack", BBC News

     A 22-year-old man was also arrested in connection with the incident for affray towards attending paramedics.

2. A tumultuous assault or quarrel.
3. The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others.

   The affray in the busy marketplace caused great terror and disorder.

4. (obsolete) Terror.

• fray, brawl
• alarm, terror, fright

• fray#Etymology_2

• Italian: allarme terrore
• Portuguese: briga, rixa, desordem, tumulto, motim