All 4 Uses of
dismay
in
David Copperfield
- These thoughts, and a hundred other such thoughts, turned me burning hot, and made me giddy with apprehension and dismay.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- I was so much dismayed by these words, and particularly by the repetition of the last unknown one, which was a kind of rattle in his throat, that I could make no answer; hereupon the old man, still holding me by the hair, repeated: 'Oh, what do you want?†
Chpt 13-15
- I was quite dismayed by the idea of this terrible Jorkins.†
Chpt 22-24
- 'She clenched both her hands,' said Traddles, looking at me in dismay; 'shut her eyes; turned lead-colour; became perfectly stiff; and took nothing for two days but toast-and-water, administered with a tea-spoon.'†
Chpt 40-42
Definition:
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(dismay) to feel sadness, disappointment, or worry -- typically in response to something surprising