Dismay
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.
To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.
Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.
Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.
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Dismay Quotations
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
Honore De Balzac
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Russell Baker
And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.
John Sexton
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
William Cowper
So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage.
Jared Leto
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
L. Sprague de Camp
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Dismay Translations
dismay in Dutch is ontzetten, ontstellen, onthutsen
dismay in Italian is costernazione
dismay in Norwegian is forferde, forferdelse
dismay in Spanish is espantar, estupefaccion
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