agrise

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/əˈɡɹaɪz/

verb

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

OriginOld English āgrīsan →
First used 10th–16th c.Scrabble 7
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Meanings

verbagrise (third-person singular simple present agrises, present participle agrising, simple past and past participle agrised)

present singular third person agrises · participle present agrising · participle past agrised · past agrised

  1. intransitiveobsoleteTo shudder with horror; to tremble, to be terrified.First known use 10th–16th c.

    And powring forth their bloud in brutishe wize, That any yron eyes to see it would agrize.

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. obsoletetransitiveTo make tremble, to terrify.First known use 13th–17th c.

Origin

  1. Old Englishāgrīsan
  2. Englishagrise

From Old English āgrīsan. Compare and see English grisly.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with agrise

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Anagrams

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APA

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MLA

“agrise.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/agrise. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “agrise,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/agrise.

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