dismay
/dɪsˈmeɪ/ verb C1- To cause to feel apprehension; great sadness, or fear; to deprive of energy.
- To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
- To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.
He/she/it dismays · Past dismayed · Past participle dismayed · -ing form dismaying
Verb forms
- Base form
- dismay
- He/she/it
- dismays
- Past
- dismayed
- Past participle
- dismayed
- -ing form
- dismaying
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“Oh, I _beg_ your pardon!” she exclaimed in a tone of great dismay, and began picking them up again as quickly as she could, for the accident of the goldfish kept running in her head, and she had a vague sort of idea that they must be collected at once and put back into the jury-box, or they would die.
She felt no little dismay over the scene that had just been enacted.
But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation--was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement.
Marilla was dismayed at finding herself inclined to laugh over the recollection.
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