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افظع

Root: فظع

Form: 4

Full Definition

افظعIV as intrans.: see 1, first sentence.

def.2 أَفْظَعَنِى الأَمْرُ The affair, or event, made me to fear, or frightened me: made me to fall into a hard, difficult, or distressing, case: made me to be without power, or strength, or ability; disabled, or incapacitated, me.
2 And أُفْظِعَ He suffered the befalling of a hard, difficult, or distressing, event.
3 See also 10.
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