transitive verb. To cause to lose enthusiasm or resolution; disillusion or discourage: synonym: discourage.

transitive verb. To upset or distress.

noun. A sudden or complete loss of courage in the face of trouble or danger.

To break down the courage of, as by sudden danger or insuperable difficulty; overcome with fear of impending calamity or failure; fill with despairing apprehension; utterly dishearten: usually in the past participle.

To defeat by sudden onslaught; put to rout.

To disquiet; trouble: usually reflexive.

Synonyms To appal, daunt, dispirit, deject, frighten, paralyse, demoralize.

To be daunted; stand aghast with fear; be confounded with terror.

noun. Sudden or complete loss of courage; despairing fear or apprehension; discouraged or terrified amazement; utter disheartenment.

noun. Ruin; defeat; destruction.

noun. Synonyms Apprehension, Fright, etc. (see alarm); discouragement.

intransitive verb. To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.

transitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.

noun. Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.

noun. Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.

noun. 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; consternation.

noun. Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.

verb. To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive of firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.

verb. To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.

verb. To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.

verb. fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised

verb. lower someone's spirits; make downhearted

noun. the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles

noun. fear resulting from the awareness of danger

"So one day I´m working on the inland side of the house and I hear this shouting in dismay from the ocean side so I walked through the house and there was my wife shouting at the sea, Just shut the hell up will you?"

frighten  

fear  fearfulness  fright  

A  A.  Bay  Bombay  Bua  

anguish  annoyance  apprehension  astonishment  awe  

abash  abject fear  affright  affright  agitate  

dismayed  dismaying  dismays