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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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
The Chattahoochee River and its tributaries flow through metropolitan Atlanta, but they hardly register for most people in the city — a disconnect that dismays Jonathan Keats.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2022
The vanishing of the old nomadic ways dismays Li, but when she expressed this to a trader, he looked at her and asked, “Have we Kazakhs not suffered enough for you yet?”
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2021
What dismays him most is the irrelevance of it all.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
