From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], from [en]; [fro] ([la]) + [fro], [fro]. See [en] (adj.) and
compare with [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [ə-pôlʹ] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To fill with horror or indignation ; to dismay .
2. * [passage=The house of peers was somewhat APPALLED at this alarum.]
3. [en] To make pale ; to blanch .
4. * [Thanſwere that ye made to me my dere]
5. [en] To weaken ; to reduce in strength
6. * {{ RQ:Pliny Holland Historie of the World
|passage=wine of it owne nature will not congeale and freeze, onely it will
loose the strength, and become APPALLED in extremitie of cold.}}
1. [en] To grow faint ; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged .
2. [en] To lose flavor or to become stale .
**** Usage notes
- Most British dictionaries consider _appal_ the sole standard UK spelling (although, as with other words ending in a single vowel followed by an _l_ , the _l_ is always doubled for derivatives such as _appalling_ ).
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[to depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Maori: [mi]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
*** References
- [R:Webster 1913]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]