DISMAY vs DISPIRIT: NOUN
- A sudden or complete loss of courage in the face of trouble or danger.
- Fear resulting from the awareness of danger
- Synonyms Apprehension, Fright, etc. (see alarm); discouragement.
- Sudden or complete loss of courage; despairing fear or apprehension; discouraged or terrified amazement; utter disheartenment.
- Ruin; defeat; destruction.
- Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.
- Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.
- The feeling of despair in the face of obstacles
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DISMAY vs DISPIRIT: VERB
- Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
- Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
- Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
- Lower the morale of; make despondent; dishearten.
DISMAY vs DISPIRIT: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.
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DISMAY vs DISPIRIT: 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.
- To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
- To upset or distress.
- To cause to lose enthusiasm or resolution; disillusion or discourage: : discourage.
- To cause to lose spirit or enthusiasm; dishearten. : discourage.
- To deprive of cheerful spirits; to depress the spirits of; to dishearten; to discourage.
- To distill or infuse the spirit of.
DISMAY vs DISPIRIT: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To be daunted; stand aghast with fear; be confounded with terror.
- Synonyms To appal, daunt, dispirit, deject, frighten, paralyse, demoralize.
- Lower someone's spirits
- Make downhearted
- Fill with apprehension or alarm
- 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 depress the spirits of; deprive of courage; discourage; dishearten; deject; cast down.
- To exhaust the spirits or bodily vigor of.
- Synonyms To damp, depress, intimidate, daunt.
- Lower someone's spirits
- Make downhearted
DISMAY vs DISPIRIT: RELATED WORDS
- Chagrin, Astonishment, Deject, Cast down, Get down, Demoralize, Depress, Dispirit, Discouragement, Disheartenment, Alarm, Appall, Appal, Horrify, Consternation
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DISMAY vs DISPIRIT: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Frustration, Indignation, Bewilderment, Disgust, Amazement, Astonishment, Deject, Demoralize, Depress, Dispirit, Discouragement, Alarm, Appal, Horrify, Consternation
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DISMAY vs DISPIRIT: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- To my dismay I got the corporate BS!
- To my dismay, that did not faze him.
- Job culture is one of gloom and dismay.
- Swallowing his dismay, he managed to find words.
- With growing dismay he listened to their story.
- Much to the dismay of anti virus companies.
- Yet fairdy well he did them all dismay.
- But, to my dismay, that did not happen.
- This truth should neither discourage nor dismay us.
- What she saw made her shudder with dismay.
- Ailly, nor would it discomfit Columbus or dispirit his conquering and colonizing progeny in the New World, whether Spiritual Franciscan or enthusiastic Puritan.
- To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to dastardize my courage.
- God can when he pleases, dispirit the boldest, and make the stoutest heart totremble.
DISMAY vs DISPIRIT: QUESTIONS
- Who sings Gospel of dismay in Bendy and the Ink Machine?
- What did Jurgis hear Queen Elizabeth give an exclamation of dismay?
- What are the signs of disarray and dismay in America?
- How many solutions are there to the dispirit puzzle?
- How is dispirit ed related to the liberation movement?