Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To frighten; terrify: usually in past participle agast, now written aghast (which see).
  • Reflexively, to be terrified.
  • A simplified spelling of aghast.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • past participle See aghast.
  • transitive verb obsolete To affright; to terrify.

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  • adjective Alternative spelling of aghast.

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