Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To grow pale or become dim.
- To become weak in quality, or faint in strength; fade; fail; decay.
- To become faint-hearted; lose courage or resolution; become dismayed.
- To become weak, flat, stale, and insipid; lose flavor or taste, as fermented liquor.
- To make pale; cause to grow pale; blanch.
- To cause to become weak or to fail; weaken; reduce.
- To deprive of courage or strength through fear; cause to shrink with fear; confound with fear; dismay; terrify: as, the sight appalled the stoutest heart.
- To cause to become weak, flat, or stale, or to lose flavor or taste, as fermented liquor.
- n. A state of terror; affright; dismay; consternation.
Wiktionary
- v. UK, less common alternative spelling of appall.
WordNet 3.0
- v. strike with disgust or revulsion
- v. fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
Examples
“He was supposed to have outgrown all that and it can only appal the England manager, Fabio Capello, particularly as the reduction in numbers heartened the hosts.”
The Guardian: Montenegro 2-2 England | Euro 2012 Group G qualifier match report
“For on that day in 1914, as the first gruesome list of casualties from the front began to appal the nation at home, a cricketer whose single feat had entranced the whole game back in one of its sunny Victorian summers of innocence was killed in France.”
The Guardian: Armistice Day recalls Arthur Collins' imperishable cricketing feat | Frank Keating
“Or to appal anyone you might be giving a lift to in your car.”
“Gaddafi had the ability to amaze and appal, to shock and amuse, simultaneously and in equal measure.”
The Guardian: Gaddafi: a vicious, sinister despot driven out on tidal wave of hatred
“Latest to appal the easily appalled is a selection of T-shirts, designed to increase Nike's share of the action sports market.”
The Guardian: Get High: Why Nike got hooked on dope | Marina Hyde
“She has already faced the disgraceful punishment of 99 lashes for adultery; her execution would disgust and appal the watching world.”
The Guardian: Iranians still facing death by stoning despite 'reprieve'
“William Hague, the foreign secretary, warned that if the "medieval" execution went ahead it would "disgust and appal" the world.”
The Guardian: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani will not be stoned to death - for the time being
“Despite being treated with contempt over the centuries, these narratives served not only to amaze and appal children but to teach them coded lessons about the realities of life, from toilet training to pregnancy, argues Germaine Greer”
“Its behaviour is simply unacceptable and should appal everyone who wants the Met to be a representative force.”
It is time to stand up to those who want to stop minorities joining the Met
“It was a sight to appal the eye and pierce the soul.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘appal’.
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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Favorites
disparage, partisan, cupidity, hokum, tussle, odious, dastardly, overture, plane, chronic, peering, peer and 328 more...
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Words from Moby Dick
frigate, presumptuous, genteel, succor, hearthstone, gentry, factitious, bilious, insurgent, portent, enervate, genuflect and 303 more...
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quality words
This is a mix of new words I've read studying for the GRE verbal and words I use normally. I also check back on these words if I don't use them often enough.
ineffable, septuagenarian, sesquipedalian, argyle, coalescence, profundity, vivisepulture, defenestrate, concatenate, usurp, diatribe, veracious and 461 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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complicated words
mire, mirth, misapplication, reluctant, aghast, surreptitiously, wares, abashed, leap, dash, peer, tangle and 107 more...
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nether's list
adroit, recrudescent, ecclesiastical, canaille, philologian, ignoble, dilettante, vicegerant, gilt, enfiladed, somnambulism, gamin and 215 more...
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Words Words and more Words
ruckus, bustle, ominous, odious, abominable, atrocious, appal, abysmal, dismal, calamity, debacle, fiasco and 231 more...
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set 16
from 76 to 80
innocuous, raspy, relevant, suffragist, dispel, glean, belabor, begrudge, zany, raucous, cadaverous, frolicsome and 74 more...
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Macbeth
quarrel, kern, disdain, minion, brandish, bid, unseam, gash, deign, disburse, exeunt, swine and 49 more...
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