dismay
/dɪsˈmeɪ/ noun C1- A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits · He looked in dismay at the destruction of the town caused by the hurricane.
- Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.
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Oh, dear!” cried Dorothy, clasping her hands together in dismay.
Our friends looked at him in surprise and dismay.
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.
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