Appall vs Deject - What's the difference?
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To depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to inundate with sudden terror or horror; to dismay.
* Edward Hyde Claredon
(obsolete) To make pale; to blanch.
* Wyatt
(obsolete) To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce.
* Holland
(obsolete) To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.
(obsolete) To lose flavour or become stale.
Make sad or dispirited.
* Benjamin Franklin
(obsolete) To cast down.
* Udall
* Fuller
Appall is a related term of deject.
In lang=en terms the difference between appall and deject
is that appall is to depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to inundate with sudden terror or horror; to dismay while deject is make sad or dispirited.As verbs the difference between appall and deject
is that appall is to depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to inundate with sudden terror or horror; to dismay while deject is make sad or dispirited.appall
English
Alternative forms
* appal (occasionally in Commonwealth English)Verb
(en verb)- The sight appalled the stoutest heart.
- The house of peers was somewhat appalled at this alarum.
- The answer that ye made to me, my dear, / Hath so appalled my countenance.
- Wine, of its own nature, will not congeal and freeze, only it will lose the strength, and become appalled in extremity of cold.
- (Gower)
Synonyms
* dismay, terrify, daunt, frighten, affright, scare, depress * See alsodeject
English
Verb
- I pitied poor Miss Read's unfortunate situation. She was generally dejected , seldom cheerful, and avoided company.
- Christ dejected himself even unto the hells.
- Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look.