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appall
English
Alternative forms
- appal (occasionally in Commonwealth English)
Etymology
From Middle English apallen, from Old French apalir (“to grow pale, make pale”); a (Latin ad) + palir (“to grow pale, to make pale”), pâle (“pale”). See pale (adj.) and compare with pall.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?-pôl?, IPA(key): /??p??l/
Verb
appall (third-person singular simple present appalls, present participle appalling, simple past and past participle appalled)
- (transitive) To fill with horror; to dismay.
- (transitive, obsolete) To make pale; to blanch.
- 1557, Thomas Wyatt, To his love that hath given him answer of refusal
- The answer that ye made to me, my dear, […] / Hath so appalled my countenance.
- 1557, Thomas Wyatt, To his love that hath given him answer of refusal
- (transitive, obsolete) To weaken; to reduce in strength
- wine of it owne nature will not congeale and freeze, onely it will loose the strength, and become appalled in extremitie of cold.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gower to this entry?)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To lose flavour or become stale.
Synonyms
- dismay, terrify, daunt, frighten, affright, scare, depress
- See also Thesaurus:frighten
Translations
Anagrams
- palpal
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