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/əpˈɔl/ Listen

verb

Appall v. t. (past & past part. appalled; pres. part. appalling)

1.

To make pale; to blanch. (Obs.) "The answer that ye made to me, my dear,... Hath so appalled my countenance."

2.

To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce; as, an old appalled wight. (Obs.) "Wine, of its own nature, will not congeal and freeze, only it will lose the strength, and become appalled in extremity of cold."

3.

To depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to overcome with sudden terror or horror; to dismay; as, the sight appalled the stoutest heart. "The house of peers was somewhat appalled at this alarum."

Synonyms: To dismay; terrify; daunt; frighten; affright; scare; depress. See Dismay.

Appall v. i.

1.

To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged. (Obs.)

2.

To lose flavor or become stale. (Obs.)

noun

Appall n. Terror; dismay. (Poet.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Appall" Quotes from Famous Books

... Jack Nickerson, there was one thing he was afraid of and that was a woman. Not that he trembled in the presence of all women—no, indeed! He had brought far too many of them to land for that. Women as a class did not appall him in the least. He had seen them in the agony of terror, in the throes of despair, and undismayed had offered them sympathy and cheer. It was one woman only who disconcerted him, the woman who for years had routed him out of his habitual poise and left him as discomfited as a guilty schoolboy ...

— Flood Tide • Sara Ware Bassett

... helped me "lay her out." And each vied with the other as to the number and condition of the bodies they had prepared for burial, incidentally comparing points between them and the present one. The grand dignity of the dead woman's face did not appall ...

— A Circuit Rider's Wife • Corra Harris

... counted, beating still the foamy Surge, And treads at last the wish'd-for beach, shall stand Appall'd at the ...

— A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4) • Justin McCarthy

... of the catastrophe was revealed when four broken forms of dead warriors were hurried into the little opening, followed by a dozen braves bearing wounds, which would appall a town-dweller. Ward's medicine had lied to them. The cannon had burst and had scattered its charge of stones among the Shawnees. One of the corpses had been beheaded by ...

— A Virginia Scout • Hugh Pendexter

... fruition of every act done in the body; and many re-births, with intervals of keener suffering and bliss in numerous hells and heavens, are the countless steps in the doleful fugue of emancipation—a process which is enough to appall any but the patient, stolid soul of a Hindu. And yet this weary detail of a very long and sisyphean effort to shake off this mortal coil and to enter into rest is worthy of the missionary's attention, as it represents, perhaps, the most elaborate system of eschatology outside of the ...

— India's Problem Krishna or Christ • John P. Jones

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