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Dismay   /dɪsmˈeɪ/   Listen
Dismay

noun
1.
The feeling of despair in the face of obstacles.  Synonyms: discouragement, disheartenment.
2.
Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.  Synonyms: alarm, consternation.
verb
(past & past part. dismayed; pres. part. dismaying)
1.
Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted.  Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dispirit, get down.  "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
2.
Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised.  Synonyms: alarm, appal, appall, horrify.  "The news of the executions horrified us"






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"Dismay" Quotes from Famous Books



... Your faith puts my fear to shame. How can those who live in the Catacombs be afraid of death? It is but a momentary gloom and it will pass. But this day we have heard much to distress our hearts and fill our spirits with dismay." ...
— The Martyr of the Catacombs - A Tale of Ancient Rome • Anonymous

... motion. Cowls fell back and habits were swept aside, and where twenty monks had stood, there were standing now a score of nimble, stalwart men in the livery of Condillac, all fully armed, all grinning in enjoyment of her and Tressan's dismay. ...
— St. Martin's Summer • Rafael Sabatini

... slowly, and, on reaching Harrisonburg, to our dismay, the head of the column filed to the left, on the road leading toward the Blue Ridge, thus disclosing the fact that the Valley was to be given up a prey to the enemy. Gloom was seen on every face at feeling that our homes were forsaken. ...
— The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson • Edward A. Moore

... a short one, leading to some sort of a stable yard. Yet, though Jack Benson reached that yard in about record time, he gave a gasp of dismay. For the well-dressed fugitive was already out of sight, nor did noise from any quarter show the line ...
— The Submarine Boys on Duty - Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat • Victor G. Durham

... after, to read the interview and learn that I had done the talking and uttered a number of trenchant sayings upon female novelists. But the amusement changed to dismay when the ladies began to retort. For No. 1 started with an airy restatement of what I had never said, and No. 2 (who had missed to read the interview) misinterpreted No. 1.'s paraphrase; and by these and other processes within a week my ...
— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


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