dismayed
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dismay \Dis*may"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dismayed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Dismaying}.] [OE. desmaien, dismaien, OF. esmaier; pref.
es- (L. ex) + OHG. magan to be strong or able; akin to E.
may. In English the pref. es- was changed to dis- (L. dis-).
See {May}, v. i.]
1. 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.
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Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed. --Josh. i.
9.
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What words be these? What fears do you dismay?
--Fairfax.
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2. To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet. [Obs.]
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Do not dismay yourself for this. --Spenser.
Syn: To terrify; fright; affright; frighten; appall; daunt;
dishearthen; dispirit; discourage; deject; depress. --
To {Dismay}, {Daunt}, {Appall}. Dismay denotes a state
of deep and gloomy apprehension. To daunt supposes
something more sudden and startling. To appall is the
strongest term, implying a sense of terror which
overwhelms the faculties.
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So flies a herd of beeves, that hear, dismayed,
The lions roaring through the midnight shade.
--Pope.
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Jove got such heroes as my sire, whose soul
No fear could daunt, nor earth nor hell control.
--Pope.
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Now the last ruin the whole host appalls;
Now Greece has trembled in her wooden walls.
--Pope.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
83 Moby Thesaurus words for "dismayed":
abashed, abroad, adrift, affrighted, afraid, agape, alarmed,
astray, at sea, bewildered, bothered, chicken, chickenhearted,
clueless, confounded, confused, consternated, coward, cowardly,
cowed, daunted, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted,
disoriented, disquieted, distracted, distraught, disturbed,
dumbfounded, embarrassed, fainthearted, fazed, fearful, frightened,
funking, funky, guessing, henhearted, in a fix, in a fright,
in a funk, in a maze, in a pickle, in a scrape, in a stew,
intimidated, lily-livered, lost, mazed, milk-livered, milksoppish,
milksoppy, mousy, off the track, overtimid, overtimorous,
overwhelmed, panic-prone, panicky, perturbed, pigeonhearted,
put-out, rabbity, rattled, shocked, sissified, sissy, soft,
startled, thunderstruck, timid, timorous, turned around, unmanly,
unmanned, upset, weak, weak-kneed, weakhearted, white-livered,
without a clue, yellow
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