To cause to feel apprehension; great sadness, or fear; to deprive of energy / To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet. / To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.

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 / Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.

simple past tense and past participle of dismay

Having the emotion of dismay.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dismay

present participle of dismay

The state or quality of being dismayed.

In a manner that causes dismay.

(obsolete) terrifying

(rare) In dismay.