Usually means: Causes feelings of distress, disappointment.
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  1. dismays: Merriam-Webster
  2. dismays: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dismays: Vocabulary.com
  4. dismays: Wordnik
  5. dismays: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dismays: Wiktionary
  7. dismays: Dictionary.com
  8. dismays: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. dismays: TheFreeDictionary.com

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(Note: See dismay as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dismay)

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.
▸ Also see dismay


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