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v. To destroy the courage or resolution of by exciting dread or apprehension.

v. To cause to lose enthusiasm; disillusion: was dismayed to learn that her favorite dancer used drugs.

v. To upset or alarm.

n. A sudden or complete loss of courage in the face of trouble or danger.

n. A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.

n. Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.

v. To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive of firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.

v. To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.

v. To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.

v. To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.

v. To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.

verb-intransitive. To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.

n. Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.

n. Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.

To break down the courage of, as by sudden danger or insuperable difficulty; overcome with fear of impending calamity or failure; fill with despairing apprehension; utterly dishearten: usually in the past participle.

To defeat by sudden onslaught; put to rout.

To disquiet; trouble: usually reflexive.

Synonyms To appal, daunt, dispirit, deject, frighten, paralyse, demoralize.

To be daunted; stand aghast with fear; be confounded with terror.

n. Sudden or complete loss of courage; despairing fear or apprehension; discouraged or terrified amazement; utter disheartenment.

n. Ruin; defeat; destruction.

n. Synonyms Apprehension, Fright, etc. (see alarm); discouragement.

v. fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised

v. lower someone's spirits; make downhearted

n. the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles

n. fear resulting from the awareness of danger

dismayed    dismaying    dismays   

fearfulness    fright    fear   

frighten   

depress    dishearthen    discourage    appall    deject    terrify    daunt    frighten    dispirit    fright   

A    A.    Bay    Bombay    Bua    Ca    Cabernet    Calais    Cathay    Chevrolet   

astonishment    consternation    anguish    indignation    annoyance    awe    impatience    chagrin    exasperation    remorse