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Meaning dismay meaning

What does dismay mean?

dismay

— noun (= discouragement) the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles — noun (= alarm) fear resulting from the awareness of danger — verb (= alarm, horrify) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview The news of the executions horrified us — verb (= depress, demoralize, demoralise) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted These news depressed her The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her

Synonyms dismay synonyms

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dismay English » English

alarm consternation appal appall scare horrify dread astound startle shock fear disconcert terror terrify take aback stupor stupefy stun stagger puzzle panic horror funk frighten fright dumbfound distress dispirit disheartenment depress demoralize demoralise daunt consternate confusion affright worry trouble trepidation timorousness remorse outrage knock down intimidate grief get down fluster fearfulness disquiet discouragement

Topics dismay topics

What do people use dismay to talk about?
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Afraid

Worried

Conjugation dismay conjugation

How do you conjugate dismay?

dismay · verb

Examples dismay examples

How do I use dismay in a sentence?

Simple sentences

To my dismay, my wallet was gone.
To my dismay, he was caught cheating in the examination.
To my dismay I found I had lost my money.
The children played in the mud, much to their parents' dismay.

Movie subtitles

One day we shall be awakened with suffering and dismay. to the realization that the soul is not a superstition.
For to their horror and dismay the captain and his crew were present next day as a human sacrifice.
Imagine my dismay when I returned to the lake and found that you were gone.
But I must admit that it is a cause of great embarrassment and profound dismay having to explain to his Catholic subjects his position.
The presence will dismay our tranquillity.
I pray you, do not register untoward dismay.
There is a large and popular business which you are causing dismay.
Tout, tout, through and about, your callow life in dismay.
My soul is full of discord and dismay.
Much to my parents' dismay.
It is with deep dismay and sincere regret that I inform you that Elizabeth Purr a well-known senior at Reagan High School was found dead in her home apparently suffering from acute asphyxiation.
The Bolians express dismay at the low quality of human plumbing.
He sees the criminal and saves the day to the dismay of the police cos they hate it when people take the law into their hands.
Lmagine my shock and dismay.
I do not dismay.
I'm reading to my dismay.
How your troubles dismay your daughter!
Much to my dismay.
Dismay that josiah was again cheated.
I was a flight attendant that Ernie brought home off the red-eye. to the shock and dismay of you and everyone else in this town.
It amuses me to imagine their dismay as they saw it being constructed.
We understand there's some dismay?
To the dismay of many parents Located but Ray Buckey still at large.
To their dismay, they found there were only 1 2 dishes.
Let nothing you dismay, I don't know one painter from another.
Dismay and amazement.
That doesn't surprise me, nor does it dismay me.
The presence will dismay our tranquility.
But they do so not by pointing with dismay at what is new, Western, or American, but by lamenting with an unindulged sense of nostalgia the loss taking place at the same time.
Stitch by stitch, the embroiderer sews in loneliness, weariness anxiety, sadness, nights of terror and sunrises of dismay and she sighs with relief when she has completed a small tapestry with conventional roses.
A week later, to Georges's dismay, Mom found work.
Well, last year, Maris and I were actually making progress in couples therapy, when, to my dismay, I discovered that she and our therapist were.
She brought me to meet you, to my dismay.
Imagine my shock and dismay.

News and current affairs

Japan found to its dismay that two decades of dreadful economic policies resulted in a cumulative bankruptcy of government and the nation's finances.
And Obama has made his support of democratic aspirations clear, to the dismay of allies like Israel and Saudi Arabia.
To the dismay of some democratic forces, Bhutto stayed the course even after Musharraf imposed emergency rule on November 3 and removed the country's top judges to ensure his re-election.
But the answer to such doubt and dismay is more Europe, not less.
America's friends around the world watched with dismay the recent brawl in over raising the federal government's debt ceiling, and the US Congress's inability to come to anything like a balanced and forward-looking compromise.
Bush discovered to his dismay that any exercise in Arab democracy is bound to usher in anti-Western Islamists, be it the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Shia parties in Iraq, or Hamas in Palestine.
As Hillary Clinton, Obama's rapidly fading rival for the Democratic nomination is finding out to her dismay, policies can be an overrated commodity in presidential elections that really matter.
That might come as a relief for those in the United Kingdom and elsewhere who fear domination by Brussels, but it can only dismay those who hope that, despite its sluggish economy and declining population, Europe can become a relevant global actor.
Given the vast amount of direct and circumstantial evidence that the rigging was on behalf of Kibaki, Frazer's assignment of equal blame to each side was met with astonishment and dismay by the opposition.
Instead, it was the small and highly professional Egyptian army that crushed the uprising, to the dismay of the young officer corps, who were already well advanced in their plans to seize power.
Perhaps not by financiers and economists, but others who were watching how markets were developing - often with dismay - were more than worried.
A year ago, the prospect of a Red-Green coalition in Bonn would have caused great dismay; now it was all smiles and back-slapping chumminess.
After his promising start, I watched the decline in Mr Kuchma's performance with dismay.

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