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Appall   /əpˈɔl/   Listen
Appall

verb
(past & past part. appalled; pres. part. appalling)
1.
Strike with disgust or revulsion.  Synonyms: appal, offend, outrage, scandalise, scandalize, shock.
2.
Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised.  Synonyms: alarm, appal, dismay, horrify.  "The news of the executions horrified us"






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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



Words linked to "Appall" :   fright, frighten, nauseate, sicken, alarm, scare, churn up, revolt, disgust, affright



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