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APPALLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Struck with fear, dread, or consternation
Synonyms:
aghast; appalled; dismayed; shocked
Classified under:
Similar:
afraid (filled with fear or apprehension)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb appall
Context examples:
I even walk, on two or three occasions, in a sickly, spoony manner, round and round the house after the family are gone to bed, wondering which is the eldest Miss Larkins's chamber (and pitching, I dare say now, on Mr. Larkins's instead); wishing that a fire would burst out; that the assembled crowd would stand appalled; that I, dashing through them with a ladder, might rear it against her window, save her in my arms, go back for something she had left behind, and perish in the flames.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A thick, black cloud swirled before my eyes, and my mind told me that in this cloud, unseen as yet, but about to spring out upon my appalled senses, lurked all that was vaguely horrible, all that was monstrous and inconceivably wicked in the universe.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Till midnight, she supposed it would be in vain to watch; but then, when the clock had struck twelve, and all was quiet, she would, if not quite appalled by darkness, steal out and look once more.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He was appalled by his own grossness, awed by her clear innocence, and he gazed again at her across the gulf.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
For a moment or two we stood appalled, all save Lord Godalming, who was seemingly prepared for such an emergency.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
As I say, I was not afraid to meet my own death, there, a few hundred yards to leeward; but I was appalled at the thought that Maud must die.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He was appalled.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He was appalled at the problem confronting him, weighted down by the incubus of his working-class station.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Lucy always wakes prettily, and even at such a time, when her body must have been chilled with cold, and her mind somewhat appalled at waking unclad in a churchyard at night, she did not lose her grace.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
She was not frightened, but appalled, rather, at the human animality of it.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
