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Meanings of appall in English

Portuguese
ofender
Catalan
xocar
Spanish
impactar

Strike with disgust or revulsion.

      ofender
      Portuguese
      alarmar
      Catalan
      horroritzar
      Spanish
      horrorizar

      Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised.

            alarmar
            Usage of appall in English
            1
            There was a young poet from Donegal, whose writing could only appall.
            Radio NZ
            2
            The gloomy forests of the big trees appall the stray traveller.
            The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
            3
            And the fact of it didn't appall him as he thought it should.
            A reliable wife
            4
            In the path of God no errors can appall, no troubles dismay him.
            Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era
            5
            A Napoleon in petticoats, she was about to appall the confederation.
            The Puppet Crown
            6
            Indeed, this eerie silence was becoming oppressive; it began positively to appall me.
            The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
            7
            The scene before them was enough to appall the stoutest heart.
            The River of Darkness; Or, Under Africa
            8
            The swirling of my own native stream does not appall me.
            The Chief Legatee
            9
            On the other side, there was a man whom no danger could appall.
            History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the ...
            10
            And no prison walls loom so high as to appall our heroine's soul.
            Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
            11
            The responsibility is enough to appall the bravest of us.
            The Great Taboo
            12
            Doesn't the American sentimentality about death's tragedy and the cult of victim-hood appall you?
            The good son: a novel
            13
            Really the situation is terrible enough to appall any one.
            Miss Caprice
            14
            The very conception of such a science might almost appall us by its immensity.
            Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science
            15
            That bedroom, too, had still the power to appall him.
            One Basket
            16
            If he did, I should appall instead of fascinating him.
            From Jest to Earnest
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