appall


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Synonyms for appall

to deprive of courage or the power to act as a result of fear, anxiety, or disgust

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Synonyms for appall

strike with disgust or revulsion

fill with apprehension or alarm

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The Queen is presumably appalled that a serial child abuser stayed at Balmoral, and Sandringham, and attended family birthday parties.
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'The result is a city altogether different from the older Indian cities, their indigenous styles of motion that so appalled the fastidious Corbusier'.
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I told him straight out that I was appalled by yesterday's debate.
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