Consternation vs Consternate - What's the difference?
consternation | consternate |
Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.
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As a noun consternation
is amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.As a verb consternate is
to cause consternation.consternation
English
Noun
(-)- It was probably worth four millennia of consternation and regret.
- "Out!" exclaimed her husband, with something like genuine consternation in his voice.
- Their audience had been listening in increasing consternation .