dismay
verb (used with object)
to break down the courage of completely, as by sudden danger or trouble; dishearten thoroughly; daunt.
dismays
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present tense formof dismay (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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That dismays Cathy Newman, a Louisiana State University graduate who just took a job teaching freshman biology at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2022
Yet the world's inability to fund more Mosquirix shots dismays many in Africa.
From Reuters ● Jul. 13, 2022
Washington’s high temperature rose into the middle of the 70s, a range that dismays few.
From Washington Post ● May 13, 2022
So it dismays Brandi Hunter Munden, the organization’s vice president of communications, to see people turn to fad diets that she says can pose the same hazards for pets as for humans.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022
From the little he knows about Russian writers, it dismays him that his parents chose the weirdest namesake.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
