appal
verb /əˈpɔːl/
/əˈpɔːl/
(British English) (North American English appall)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they appal | /əˈpɔːl/ /əˈpɔːl/ |
| (North American English) present simple I / you / we / they appall | /əˈpɔːl/ /əˈpɔːl/ |
| he / she / it appals | /əˈpɔːlz/ /əˈpɔːlz/ |
| (North American English) he / she / it appalls | /əˈpɔːlz/ /əˈpɔːlz/ |
| past simple appalled | /əˈpɔːld/ /əˈpɔːld/ |
| past participle appalled | /əˈpɔːld/ /əˈpɔːld/ |
| -ing form appalling | /əˈpɔːlɪŋ/ /əˈpɔːlɪŋ/ |
- to make somebody feel extremely shocked and feel very strongly that something is bad synonym horrify
- appal somebody The brutality of the crime has appalled the public.
- The idea of sharing a room appalled her.
- The thought of having to do it all again appals me.
- it appals somebody that…/to do something It appalled me that they could simply ignore the problem.
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Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French apalir ‘grow pale’, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to, at’) + palir ‘to pale’. The original sense was ‘grow pale’, later ‘make pale’, hence ‘horrify’ (late Middle English).