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"My soul is full of discord and ___": "Hamlet"
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dismay
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles [syn: discouragement , disheartenment ] fear resulting from the awareness of danger [syn: alarm , consternation ] v. lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from dismay (v.).
Usage examples of dismay.
Versailles, expressed dismay that Adams understood nothing he said, but politely remarked that he hoped Adams would remain long enough in France to learn French perfectly.
Then, out of the blue and to his utter dismay, Adams was called on to make one last emergency trip to Holland, and in the worst possible season to cross the North Sea.
The General felt very bad about sending anyone down into the Danakil country it was hot here in Asmara, God alone knew what it would be like down there, and the General felt a pang of dismay that he had allowed Crespi to select anyone with such political influence as the Count.
Though somewhat dismayed to find his property located a score of leagues beyond that of his nearest white neighbor, the major was at the same time gratified to discover in that neighbor his old friend and comrade, William Johnson, through whose diplomacy the powerful Iroquois tribes of the Six Nations were allied to the English and kept at peace.
Philly, looking downward, tracing with a trembling finger the pattern of the beadwork on the ottoman before which she knelt, listened with an inward shiver of dismay and ecstasy.
The dismayed barbarians, on whatsoever side they cast their eyes, beheld, with despair, a wasted country, a deep and rapid stream, a victorious and implacable enemy.
As they drew near John saw with dismay that they were many of the same Pharisees and Sadducees who had tested the preacher at Bethabara, and the Nazarene in Jerusalem.
After numerous rounds of boilermakers and an equal number of arguments about the current baseball season, they were shocked and dismayed to see a couple of Army guys jauntily walk in.
Her soft cry of dismay alerted Stella, who seemed to be the only person besides Brenn left sober.
The fact that he limped deluded other bulls into thinking that here was an easy enemy, and in the first years he was often challenged, always to the dismay of those who did the challenging.
The fire lizards had cleared the bowl of meat, and Camo stared into its hollow, his face contorted by an expression of dismay.
When I came to look at my third basket, judge my dismay to find that it was addressed to the Cavaliere Aquamorta, at the Albergo del Sole.
Whether it was his cries, or the, to them, awful sound and effect of the pistol shot, or what, I know not, but the other priests halted, paralysed and dismayed, and before they could come on again Sorais had called out something, and we, together with the two Queens and most of the courtiers, were being surrounded with a wall of armed men.
The oglers drew back in dismay, some reaching for the pinkish crystals that all of them wore.
Now that their dismay was over, the Culdees surrounded the strangers with smiling faces.