DISMAY
\dɪsmˈe͡ɪ], \dɪsmˈeɪ], \d_ɪ_s_m_ˈeɪ]\
Definitions of DISMAY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
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the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles
By Princeton University
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lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
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the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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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To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
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To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.
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Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.
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Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.
By Oddity Software
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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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To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
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To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.
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Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.
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Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.
By Noah Webster.
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To terrify; dispirit; discourage.
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Dismayed.
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Dismaying.
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Loss of courage through fear; a condition of terror.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Loss of courage; properly loss, or paralysis of ability or power, caused by fear.
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To discourage; to deprive of that strength or firmness of mind which constitutes courage; to depress.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A loss of courage or firmness; a sinking of the spirits; depression; fear, with discouragement and confusion.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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