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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
appalled
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be alarmed/appalled/upset etc at the prospect (of sth)
▪ She was secretly appalled at the prospect of being looked after by her aunt.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Appalled at the state of the kitchen, she set about scrubbing away the layers of grime and grease.
▪ As one appalled witness later wrote, the fire spread out of control before the family could escape.
▪ I knew everyone in the room was appalled by my behaviour, but I didn't care.
▪ I was appalled to learn that a serial killer was running a drugs operation in a high-security prison.
▪ We're absolutely appalled that the newspapers can freely make allegations about this company.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both the Paviours were stiffening in appalled disbelief, even young Lawrence had drawn a hissing breath of doubt.
▪ He was frozen there with an appalled sense of waste, that his cohort had denied him his greatest discovery.
▪ Her family was appalled and her father told her she would never be allowed into the Royal Enclosure at Ascot again.
▪ Howard struggles not to feel appalled.
▪ She and her husband were shocked and appalled and wondered if they would become prisoners in their own home.
▪ Then, in a moment of appalled recognition, she saw the lie for what it was.
▪ They watched her switch from the attic Shirley to the downstairs Shirley with appalled, enthralled admiration.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
appalled

appalled \appalled\ adj. 1. struck with fear, dread, or consternation.

Syn: aghast(predicate), dismayed, shocked.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
appalled

1570s, "enfeebled;" c.1600, "dismayed;" past participle adjective from appall.

Wiktionary
appalled

  1. shocked, horrified by something unpleasant v

  2. 1 (en-past of: appall) 2 (en-past of: appal)

WordNet
appalled

adj. struck with fear, dread, or consternation [syn: aghast(p), dismayed, shocked]

appal

  1. v. strike with disgust or revulsion; "The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends" [syn: shock, offend, scandalize, scandalise, appall, outrage]

  2. fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised; "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us" [syn: dismay, alarm, appall, horrify]

  3. [also: appalling, appalled]

appalled

See appal

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.