Usually means: Distress caused by unexpected trouble.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. dismay: Merriam-Webster
  2. dismay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dismay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dismay: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dismay: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dismay, dismay: Wordnik
  7. dismay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dismay: Wiktionary
  9. dismay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dismay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dismay: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dismay, dismay: Dictionary.com
  13. dismay: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dismay: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dismay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dismay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dismay: Rhymezone
  18. dismay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dismay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. dismay: FreeDictionary.org
  21. dismay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. dismay: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. dismay: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. dismay: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. dismay: Legal dictionary

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  1. dismay: Encyclopedia

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(Note: See dismayed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To cause to feel apprehension; great sadness, or fear; to deprive of energy
verb:  To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
verb:  To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.
noun:  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
noun:  Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.

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