Bible Dictionaries
Dismay

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. i.) To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.

(2):

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

(3):

(v. t.) Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.

(4):

(v. i.) 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.

(5):

(v. i.) To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Dismay'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​d/dismay.html. 1828.