Appall vs Kindle - What's the difference?
appall | kindle |
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.
To start (a fire) or light (a torch, a match, coals, etc.).
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= (figuratively) To arouse or inspire (a passion, etc).
(obsolete) To bring forth young; to give birth.
* (Shakespeare)
* Holland
In lang=en terms the difference between appall and kindle
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 kindle is to start (a fire) or light (a torch, a match, coals, etc).In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between appall and kindle
is that appall is (obsolete) to lose flavour or become stale while kindle is (obsolete) to bring forth young; to give birth.As verbs the difference between appall and kindle
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 kindle is to start (a fire) or light (a torch, a match, coals, etc).As a noun kindle is
(obsolete) a group of kittens.appall
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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 alsokindle
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Hypernyms
* clowder, glaringVerb
(kindl)- And then it was that I first perceived the danger in which I stood; for there was no hope of kindling a light, and I doubted now whether even in the light I could ever have done much to dislodge the great slab of slate.
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- The poor beast had but lately kindled .