Difference between Dismay and Demoralize

DISMAY vs DEMORALIZE: NOUN

A sudden or complete loss of courage in the face of trouble or danger.
Sudden or complete loss of courage; despairing fear or apprehension; discouraged or terrified amazement; utter disheartenment.
Fear resulting from the awareness of danger
Ruin; defeat; destruction.
Synonyms Apprehension, Fright, etc. (see alarm); discouragement.
The feeling of despair in the face of obstacles
Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.
Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.

To cause to lose enthusiasm or resolution; disillusion or discourage: : discourage.
To upset or distress.
To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
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.

To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in discipline, in courage, spirit, etc.; to weaken in spirit or efficiency.
To debase the morals of; corrupt.
To put into disorder; confuse.
To undermine the confidence or morale of; dishearten.

Lower someone's spirits
Make downhearted
Fill with apprehension or alarm
To be daunted; stand aghast with fear; be confounded with terror.
Synonyms To appal, daunt, dispirit, deject, frighten, paralyse, demoralize.
To disquiet; trouble: usually reflexive.
To defeat by sudden onslaught; put to rout.
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 corrupt or undermine the morals of; weaken or destroy the effect of moral principles on.
To deprive of spirit or energy; dishearten; destroy the courage, confidence, or hope of; render incapable of brave or energetic effort: specifically used in relation to troops: as, the charge of our cavalry completely demoralized the enemy's left wing.
To throw into confusion in general; bring into disorder; confuse mentally: as, he was badly demoralized by fright.
Also spelled demoralise.
Lower someone's spirits
Make downhearted

Chagrin, Astonishment, Deject, Cast down, Get down, Demoralize, Depress, Dispirit, Discouragement, Disheartenment, Alarm, Appall, Appal, Horrify, Consternation

Frustrate, Cast down, Deject, Get down, Profane, Pervert, Dismay, Corrupt, Debauch, Deprave, Misdirect, Debase, Depress, Vitiate, Dispirit

Frustration, Indignation, Bewilderment, Disgust, Amazement, Astonishment, Deject, Demoralize, Depress, Dispirit, Discouragement, Alarm, Appal, Horrify, Consternation

Foil, Forestall, Thwart, Frustrate, Deject, Profane, Pervert, Dismay, Corrupt, Debauch, Deprave, Misdirect, Depress, Vitiate, Dispirit

Personal confusion may disarm us but it need not demoralize us.
Paul used the tensions between Brian and me to demoralize me.
The resolution does not demoralize our troops nor embolden the insurgents.
All she does is put me down and demoralize me.
Intimidation you can just Demoralize enemies whenever your Multiple Attack Penalty starts to add up.
They demoralize and destroy the developing mind of our children during their most tender.
This will demoralize many photographers further pursing the stock photo business.
Participated in the decision making demoralize employees is a new account?
Truth, liberty, and justice cannot demoralize, but blind faith does.
These sexual assaults serve to humiliate, degrade and demoralize victims.