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appalled

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Word definitions for appalled in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
shocked, horrified by something unpleasant v 1 (en-past of: appall ) 2 (en-past of: appal )

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
appalled \appalled\ adj. 1. struck with fear, dread, or consternation. Syn: aghast(predicate), dismayed, shocked.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. strike with disgust or revulsion; "The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends" [syn: shock , offend , scandalize , scandalise , appall , outrage ] fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised; "I was horrified ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "enfeebled;" c.1600, "dismayed;" past participle adjective from appall .

Usage examples of appalled.

Caepio Junior would have been appalled if she had moaned in ecstasy or thrown herself around in the bed as if she enjoyed herself in the manner of a mistress.

Little men with big names, appalled at the idea that their beloved Rome had been saved by a despised New Manan Italian hayseed with no Greek, as Metellus Numidicus Piggle-wiggle had put it many years before.

He had always liked and respected Roland, and was appalled by this ashen and haggard man sitting his horse before him.

Again Belial tried to interrupt, appalled at the inference that he had got Cazna pregnant, but Cazna overrode her father.

But then they flickered through her unstoppably, as if projected by a magic lantern, and they appalled her.

Now that they had it, the slowly dawning understanding that still, even so, even with that knowledge they might not make it home, appalled them.

The three cactacae are appalled at this velocity and control that border on thaumaturgy.

It was the emotion itself, the intense, giddying, slick, and sick-making ardor she had heard in their voices that appalled her.

The emotion still appalled and nauseated her, like something rotting in her stomach.

Mute and appalled, he moved aside for her, and she wheezed and entered the shadow.

Lovers mutter wetly to each other and grapple with an abandon that still appalled her.

Vita, suffering H withdrawal, refused to participate, and Orlene, appalled at what she had learned, had retreated to passivity again.

I was appalled to discover what had happened, and even more so when I realized that I had tucked that print in the magazine myself.

The patronesses would be appalled to espy a serious thought on the premises.

When Lax and the defense attorneys saw a transcript of the interview, they were appalled by the tenor of the exchange.