Dismay vs Sicken - What's the difference?
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A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.
Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.
To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive of firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.
* Bible, Josh. i. 9
* Fairfax
To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
* Spenser
To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.
* 1592 , , III. iii. 1:
To make ill.
To become ill.
* Francis Bacon
To fill with disgust or abhorrence.
To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.
* Shakespeare
To become disgusting or tedious.
* Goldsmith
To become weak; to decay; to languish.
* Alexander Pope
Dismay is a related term of sicken.
As verbs the difference between dismay and sicken
is that dismay is to disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive of firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify while sicken is to make ill.As a noun dismay
is a sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.dismay
English
Noun
(-)Verb
(en verb)- Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed .
- What words be these? What fears do you dismay ?
- Do not dismay yourself for this.
- Dismay not, princes, at this accident,
sicken
English
Verb
(en verb)- The infection will sicken him until amputation is needed.
- I will sicken if I don’t get some more exercise.
- The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died.
- His arrogant behaviour sickens me.
- Mine eyes did sicken at the sight.
- The toiling pleasure sickens into pain.
- All pleasures sicken , and all glories sink.