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What does appall mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word appall? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To fill with horror; to dismay.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To make pale; to blanch.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To weaken; to reduce in strength
  4. (intransitive, obsolete) To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.
  5. (intransitive, obsolete) To lose flavour or become stale.
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The consequences of the step they had taken began to appall her.
Ironically detached, they will not test, one-by-one, the proposed septuple functions of Christ's hand, nor will heptamerousness appall them.
On the other side, there was a man whom no danger could appall.
The grand dignity of the dead woman's face did not appall them, but it frightened me.
But they appall the party's libertarian wing, which thinks the government has no business regulating on personal morality.
There are editors — often the same editors — who will try to take an interesting detail out of the story simply because the detail happens to horrify or appall them.

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