Definitions of dismay

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

2. Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.

3. To terrify; dispirit; discourage.

4. To terrify: to discourage.

5. To daunt; affright.

6. To fill with fear; appal; affright.

7. 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.

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

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

10. lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; " These news depressed her"; " The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"

11. To discourage; to deprive of that strength or firmness of mind which constitutes courage; to depress.

12. Dismaying.

13. the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles

14. Loss of courage through fear; a condition of terror.

15. Loss of courage; fright.

16. Overwhelming fright; consternation; terror.

17. Loss of courage; properly loss, or paralysis of ability or power, caused by fear.

18. A loss of courage or firmness; a sinking of the spirits; depression; fear, with discouragement and confusion.

19. Dismayed.