agrise

verb /əˈɡɹaɪz/

1. To shudder with horror; to tremble, to be terrified.

   intransitive, obsolete

   That any yron eyes to see it would agrize.

   And powring forth their bloud in brutishe wize,

2. To make tremble, to terrify.

   obsolete, transitive

Where it comes from

From Old English āgrīsan. Compare and see English grisly.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry agrise (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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