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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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"Appall" Quotes from Famous Books

... And there came to Glooskap a certain evil-minded magician, who sought to take his life, as the Master very well knew, for he read the hearts of men as if they had been strings of wampum. And this m'teoulin (P., magician), believing himself to be greatest in all things, thought to appall Glooskap by outdoing him at first in something at which he excelled; for a fish is frightened when another swims faster, ...

— The Algonquin Legends of New England • Charles Godfrey Leland

... and held me so whilst we watched for the long-lashed eyes to open. The stillness of the place was positively unnatural; it seemed inconceivable that all about us was the discordant activity of the commercial East End. Indeed, this eerie silence was becoming oppressive; it began positively to appall me. ...

— The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer

... articles to magazines, in pathetic ignorance of the trade. He felt the immense difficulty of the career of literature without clearly understanding it; the battle was happily in a mist, so that the host of the enemy, terribly arrayed, was to some extent hidden. Yet there was enough of difficulty to appall; from following the intricate course of little nameless brooks, from hushed twilight woods, from the vision of the mountains, and the breath of the great wind, passing from deep to deep, he would come home filled with thoughts and emotions, mystic fancies which he ...

— The Hill of Dreams • Arthur Machen

... distances intervening between residences, and involving great fatigue and exposure. Like the good Brother Frink, who preceded him in this field, he was compelled to swim rivers, suffer hunger and endure fatigue, that would appall a man of less nerve. During the winter his horse became disabled and he made the entire round on foot, carrying his provisions in a knapsack. Such were the trials and exposures of the pioneers who planted the standard of the Cross in the "Sheboygan Woods," as this region was called. They ...

— Thirty Years in the Itinerancy • Wesson Gage Miller

... and of restricted mental horizon does not think in terms of masses of mankind. Masses vaguely appall him. They exist in the big cities on which he turned his back in his unaudacious youth. His contacts are with individuals. His democracy consists in smiling upon the village painter and calling him "Harry," ...

— The Mirrors of Washington • Anonymous

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