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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

abashed, abroad, adrift, affrighted, afraid, agape, alarmed, astray, at sea, bewildered, bothered, chicken, chickenhearted, clueless, confounded, confused, consternated, coward, cowardly, cowed, daunted, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, disoriented, disquieted, distracted, distraught, disturbed, dumbfounded, embarrassed, fainthearted, fazed, fearful, frightened, funking, funky, guessing, henhearted, in a fix, in a fright, in a funk, in a maze, in a pickle, in a scrape, in a stew, intimidated, lily-livered, lost, mazed, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy, mousy, off the track, overtimid, overtimorous, overwhelmed, panic-prone, panicky, perturbed, pigeonhearted, put-out, rabbity, rattled, shocked, sissified, sissy, soft, startled, thunderstruck, timid, timorous, turned around, unmanly, unmanned, upset, weak, weak-kneed, weakhearted, white-livered, without a clue, yellow

Dictionary Results for dismayed:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

dismayed
    adj 1: struck with fear, dread, or consternation [syn:
           aghast(p), appalled, dismayed, shocked]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Dismay \Dis*may"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dismayed; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Dismaying.] [OE. desmaien, dismaien, OF. esmaier; pref.
   es- (L. ex) + OHG. magan to be strong or able; akin to E.
   may. In English the pref. es- was changed to dis- (L. dis-).
   See May, v. i.]
   1. To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the
      spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy
      through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.
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            Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed. --Josh. i.
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            What words be these? What fears do you dismay?
                                                  --Fairfax.
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   2. To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet. [Obs.]
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            Do not dismay yourself for this.      --Spenser.

   Syn: To terrify; fright; affright; frighten; appall; daunt;
        dishearthen; dispirit; discourage; deject; depress. --
        To Dismay, Daunt, Appall. Dismay denotes a state
        of deep and gloomy apprehension. To daunt supposes
        something more sudden and startling. To appall is the
        strongest term, implying a sense of terror which
        overwhelms the faculties.
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              So flies a herd of beeves, that hear, dismayed,
              The lions roaring through the midnight shade.
                                                  --Pope.
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              Jove got such heroes as my sire, whose soul
              No fear could daunt, nor earth nor hell control.
                                                  --Pope.
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              Now the last ruin the whole host appalls;
              Now Greece has trembled in her wooden walls.
                                                  --Pope.
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