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dismayingverbpresent participle of dismay to lessen the courage or confidence ofthe imposing climb up the mountain dismayed us even before we got started chilling, daunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, frustrating, unmanning, unnerving browbeating, bullying, cowing, intimidatingdepressing, saddening, weighingafflicting, tryingdampening, damping, deadeningdistressing, troublingbothering, irking, vexing, worryingdebilitating, enfeebling, undermining, weakeningfrightening, horrifying, scaring throwing cold water on emboldening, encouraging, heartening, nerving, steeling buoying (up), cheering, gladdeninganimating, enlivening, invigoratingenforcing, fortifying, reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningassuring, reassuringboosting, energizing, exciting, galvanizing, inspiring, lifting, provoking, quickening, rallying, stimulating, stirring to trouble the mind of; to make uneasyparents who became increasingly dismayed by their son's foundering marriage agitating, ailing, alarming(also alaruming), bothering, concerning, derailing, discomforting, discomposing, disquieting, distempering, distracting, distressing, disturbing, exercising, flurrying, frazzling, freaking (out), fussing, hagriding, perturbing, undoing, unhinging, unsettling, upsetting, weirding out, worrying aggravating, angering, annoying, bugging, chafing, chivying(or chivvying), exasperating, fretting, galling, getting, grating, harassing, harrying, irking, irritating, nettling, peeving, pestering, piquing, putting off, putting out, riling, vexingbedeviling, haunting, plaguingabashing, confounding, confusing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, jarring, mortifying, nonplussing(also nonplusing), rattling, shaking updaunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, unnerving calming, composing, quieting, settling, soothing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing) allaying, alleviating, assuagingappeasing, conciliating, mollifying, pacifying, placating, propitiating in 1582 |