Shocked vs. Dismay — What's the Difference?

A violent collision, impact, or explosion, or the force or movement resulting from this

To cause to lose enthusiasm or resolution; disillusion or discourage

Something that suddenly causes emotional distress

To upset or distress

A sudden feeling of distress

A sudden or complete loss of courage in the face of trouble or danger.

A massive, acute physiological reaction usually to physical trauma, infection, or allergy, characterized by a marked loss of blood pressure, resulting in a diminished blood flow to body tissues and a rapid heart rate.

To cause to feel apprehension; great sadness, or fear; to deprive of energy

The sensation and muscular spasm caused by an electric current passing through the body or a body part.

To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.

A sudden economic disturbance, such as a rise in the price of a commodity.

To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.

A shock absorber.

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

A number of sheaves of grain stacked upright in a field for drying.

Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.

A thick heavy mass

To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.

To surprise and disturb greatly

To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.

To induce a state of physical shock in (an animal or person).

To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.

To subject (an animal or person) to an electric shock.

Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.

To administer electric current to (a patient) to treat cardiac arrest or life-threatening arrhythmias.

Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.

To administer electroconvulsive therapy to (a patient).

The feeling of despair in the face of obstacles

To come into contact violently, as in battle; collide.

Fear resulting from the awareness of danger

To gather (grain) into shocks.

Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted;

, startled, confused, or taken aback, particularly when also indignant.

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

(medicine) Suffering from shock.

(physics) Affected, altered, or transformed by one or more shock waves.

Subjected to electric shock.

Simple past tense and past participle of shock

Struck with fear, dread, or consternation