Dismay

Definition of Dismay

Dis`may´

v. t.	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. [imp. & p. p. Dismayed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dismaying.] Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed. - Josh. i. 9. What words be these? What fears do you dismay? - Fairfax.
	2.	To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet. Do not dismay yourself for this. - Spenser. So flies a herd of beeves, that hear, dismayed, The lions roaring through the midnight shade. - Pope. Jove got such heroes as my sire, whose soul No fear could daunt, nor earth nor hell control. - Pope. Now the last ruin the whole host appalls; Now Greece has trembled in her wooden walls. - Pope.
v. i.	1.	To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.
n.	1.	Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation. I . . . can not think of such a battle without dismay. - Macaulay. Thou with a tiger spring dost leap upon thy prey, And tear his helpless breast, o'erwhelmed with wild dismay. - Mrs. Barbauld.
	2.	Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.

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