Word Finder - appalled

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To fill with horror; to dismay.

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The evidence put forth at the court appalled most of the jury.

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To make pale; to blanch.

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To weaken; to reduce in strength

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To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.

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To lose flavour or become stale.

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Shocked, horrified by something unpleasant.

She choked it back quickly, appalled she was able to find humor at such a time.

He was more and more appalled by the memories afflicting his brother, what he'd gone through since his supposed death.

I am absolutely appalled to have received no offers of assistance!

Quite frankly I am appalled that I have been so misinformed.

The former FBI agent was appalled over the attack by Owen Bryce and his subsequent death.

Since she was a second grade school teacher, some viewers and community members were appalled.

My magnificent Venetian gondolier & manservant was appalled at the sight of this poor beggar sitting next his padrone.

When Peter Mandelson was forced out in January 2001, pro-Agreement unionists were appalled.

But he found a stepmother there; and this apparition on his father's hearth at first rather appalled him.

The unparalleled spread of ultramontane ideas (see Ultramontanism) brought about a centralization of authority at Rome such as would have appalled the 18th century.

How the 18th century puritans who furnished this place would be appalled !

Ever since the advent of the bikini, parents have grown increasingly appalled at their daughters' willingness to flaunt their flesh in public.

Some costumes could be considered raunchy, especially by those appalled by the idea of a little role playing action in the bedroom.

Or that it was produced by John Cale, a reformed drug addict appalled by the band's unruly behavior and chemical intake.

In one episode, their entrance interviews are viewed by ladies and gentlemen who then talk about how appalled they are by the contestants' lifestyles.

The earthquake at Lisbon, which appalled other people, gave Voltaire an excellent opportunity for ridiculing the beliefs of the orthodox, first in verse (1756) and later in the (from a literary point of view) unsurpassable tale of Candide (1759).

Cynthia was appalled that Fitzgerald would go to such extremes to intimidate Lydia if everything the woman said was true.

I would consider tabling an Early Day Motion if that is asked of me. Holborn and St Pancras MP Frank Dobson was equally appalled.

I am totally appalled by the disgusting hygiene in pubs.

Galen himself couldn't dissect human cadavers, because Romans were even more appalled by the notion than the Greeks.

Pershing and his Staff were appalled at what they considered to be bad American generalship, despite the unfavorable odds.

We are appalled at bishops in the western Anglican churches who support immorality.

How the 18th century Puritans who furnished this place would be appalled!

At the time, no doctor would deliver a baby without a fetal monitor screwed into the baby's skull, and Mom was appalled at the idea.

Such was the case with Ring Lardner, Jr. who was annoyed and appalled by Robert Altman's cinematic interpretation of his script, a dark comedy about American servicemen during the Korean War.

He was not greatly beloved by his clergy, who felt their intellectual distance too great, and were alternately frozen by his taciturnity and appalled by his sarcasm.

Their vassals and subjects, appalled by the invisible powers wielded by the head of the church, supported them in their rebellion.

Nevertheless, even the combative Wallqvist was appalled when on the 16th of February 1789 the king privately informed him that he meant on the following day soundly to trounce the Estate of Nobles in the presence of the three other estates and bend them to his royal will.