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DISMAY

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dismay I. verb A. tranzitiv

1. (with, at) a speria, a îngrozi (cu).

2. a consterna; a nelinişti; a descuraja.

dismay I. verb B. intranzitiv

a se înspăimânta, a se îngrozi.

dismay II. substantiv

1. spaimă, groază;

he filled us with dismay ne umplu de groază;

to strike smb. with dismay a înspăimânta pe cineva; a vârî în groază pe cineva.

2. consternare; descurajare; disperare;

in blank dismay consternat, cuprins de consternare.

3. (înv.) ruină, distrugere.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Our guide cried aloud in his astonishment and dismay.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

So she took Amy by the hand, and taught her as she herself had been taught sixty years ago, a process which carried dismay to Amy's soul, and made her feel like a fly in the web of a very strict spider.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

So, indeed, it proved, and as I come to the dark conclusion of a story which had seemed to me to be only childish and bizarre, I experience once again the dismay and horror with which I was filled.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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