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
Archpriest Andriy Pinchuk, 44, the former mayor of a small agricultural village just south of the central city of Dnipro, said the hesitancy dismays many parish priests.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2022
You might “say this concerns you, that it dismays you,” he said, but that “you’re not trying to second-guess” the president.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2022
What dismays him most is the irrelevance of it all.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
