(v. t.) The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack.
(v. t.) Alarm; terror; fright.
(v. t.) A tumultuous assault or quarrel; a brawl; a fray.
(v. t.) The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others.
Example Sentences:
(1) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
(2) Within four paragraphs, Wills's "working-class accent" had mutated into a "silly accent"; by way of hammering home the Sandhurst chaps' close resemblance to what the Sun called "any bunch of lads from your neighbourhood street corner", they printed a shot of Michael Carroll, a man from Norfolk who won the lottery but is now serving nine months for affray - as if he were the typical representative of the working class.
(3) "The woman was pregnant, and the man was arrested for affray a few hours later.
(4) Eight people were arrested, of whom six were charged with offences including affray and cannabis possession.
(5) Of the 229 people detained as part of Operation Dulcet – the huge drive to bring lawbreakers to justice – 174 have been charged with offences including riotous assembly, affray, unlawful assembly, assault on police and criminal damage.
(6) Police spent millions of pounds on the case against Jacobs, who was 16 at the time of the murder and had previously been convicted of affray in 1986 for his part in the disturbances.
(7) Non-purposive delinquency of toxicomaniacs includes arson, affray, group delicts, agressive violence etc.
(8) Ruddock was charged with affray and Sinclair with criminal damage after a woman claimed that two men ripped bits off her car.
(9) The witness known as Rhodes Levin was jailed for 12 months for affray during the riots fater pleading guilty in June 1987.
(10) judge-made) power of arrest where there is a "breach of the peace", which itself is not really a crime, but can be said to occur whenever harm is actually done or is likely to be done to a person or, in his presence, to his property, or where a person is in fear of being harmed through an assault, affray, riot, unlawful assembly or other disturbance.
(11) Deeney, who began this season serving a prison sentence for affray, ran to his family in the stand.
(12) Officers detained a group in Lower Regent Street close to the junction with Waterloo Place and made arrests for affray.
(13) And most seriously of all, he was found guilty of assault and affray following a fight outside a branch of McDonald's in Liverpool, a conviction that led to him spending 74 days in prison in 2008.
(14) Last June, a few days before his 24th birthday and just a few weeks after cancer claimed his father at the age of 47, Deeney was sentenced to 10 months' imprisonment for affray following a night-club brawl in which he kicked a student in the head.
(15) In 1986 pleaded guilty to burglary and affray and received a 42 month sentence.
(16) Police said he had been arrested after allegations of assault, affray and criminal damage.
(17) However, the mayor became the first senior figure to raise the possibility of violence when he added: "What they can't do is, I think, use the death of an elderly person to begin riot or affray or that sort of thing.
(18) It was first discovered in 1988 while Jacobs was serving an eight-year term for affray.
(19) Three men were arrested during the game, including a 20-year-old on suspicion of affray and a 47-year-old and 18-year-old for pitch incursion.
(20) Despite the fact a court had found he should face not custodial sentence for his part in the 2011 affray, Chegeni faced indefinite detention because of it.
Fright
Definition:
(n.) A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
(n.) Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
(n.) To alarm suddenly; to shock by causing sudden fear; to terrify; to scare.
Example Sentences:
(1) This may be one of the mechanisms by which animals under stress prepare their skeletal muscle for exercise as part of the 'fright and flight' reaction.
(2) Shares in London fell sharply for a second successive session on Monday as the world's investors took fright at fears of a meltdown in emerging market economies.
(3) That hit stocks as investors took fright, because the iPhone is Apple's biggest revenue generator.
(4) Roads were poorly developed and unsafe, hygiene was rudimentary, social security virtually inexistent and perinatal and children's mortality frightfully high.
(5) But with his claims last time round being over-inflated, it could be a while before his new rivals take fright.
(6) Deployed in an attacking central midfield role behind Peter Crouch, Adam excelled, giving Newcastle quite a few early frights with his incisive through-passes and well-timed late runs into the penalty area.
(7) Results correspond to previous studies of coping with chronic illness, and suggest that somatization following physical trauma is better explained with reference to personal meaning than to a fright-model as suggested in the post-traumatic stress criteria of the DSM-III-R.
(8) There is a frightful row going on at the IUCN over the decision of its executive director Julia Marton-Lefevre last week to side with Britain over the creation of the marine protected area .
(9) Just to put this in context, the Guardian has reported that: "Stock markets took fright on Wednesday as fears grew over the health of the global economy and the ongoing European debt crisis.
(10) A fright or shock induced toxic secretion (gel) from the epidermis of the Arabian Gulf catfish, Arius thalassinus, exhibits hemolytic activity when tested against red blood cells from many different sources.
(11) This essay -- 1) considers probable risks of retreating in fright from the approach which has significantly reduced the morbidity and mortality of surgical operations over the last 100 years, so that we may balance them against the known and putative risks of transfusion.
(12) Analysts immediately wiped £2bn off their forecasts for 2011 – which had been at about £6.5bn – after taking fright at the grim outlook for margins.
(13) The City took fright after high court judge Mr Justice Vos announced on Friday morning that he planned to manage the four phone-hacking claims filed against Trinity Mirror's newspapers earlier this week.
(14) This trend has resulted in extraordinary progress in many aspects of life, though at the same time created a frightfully specialized lifestyle.
(15) If international investors took fright, driving up the cost of serving the UK’s £1.5trn in government debt, he would simply order Threadneedle Street to start creating money and buying up gilts.
(16) Alfred Hitchcock's 1950 film, Stage Fright , was criticised for what became known as its "lying flashback" – a long flashback about a murder that we later learn is untrue.
(17) But analysts were sceptical of how long the campaign could be sustained, given the fright that investors took at the speed and scale of a slump that wiped out up to $4tn in stock market capitalisation.
(18) At the time, she felt so humiliated that she became stricken with stage fright.
(19) People’s weak appetite for economic risk may not be the result of pure fear, at least not in the sense of an anxiety like stage fright.
(20) There was no evident difference in responsiveness between the four groups, though 3 fish with lesions in the regions ventralis pars dorsalis and ventralis pars ventralis gave fright responses to novel stimuli.