All dismay synonyms

verb dismay

• disappoint — to fail to fulfill the expectations or wishes of: His gross ingratitude disappointed us.
• dispirit — to deprive of spirit, hope, enthusiasm, etc.; depress; discourage; dishearten.
• rattle — to give out or cause a rapid succession of short, sharp sounds, as in consequence of agitation and repeated concussions: The windows rattled in their frames.
• frighten — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
• puzzle — a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.
• unnerve — to deprive of courage, strength, determination, or confidence; upset: Fear unnerved him.
• agitate — If people agitate for something, they protest or take part in political activity in order to get it.
• confound — If someone or something confounds you, they make you feel surprised or confused, often by showing you that your opinions or expectations of them were wrong.
• shake — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
• horrify — to cause to feel horror; strike with horror: The accident horrified us all.
• terrify — to fill with terror or alarm; make greatly afraid.
• dumbfound — to make speechless with amazement; astonish.
• disillusion — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
• bewilder — If something bewilders you, it is so confusing or difficult that you cannot understand it.
• flummox — to bewilder; confound; confuse.
• appall — If something appalls you, it disgusts you because it seems so bad or unpleasant.
• daunt — If something daunts you, it makes you feel slightly afraid or worried about dealing with it.
• disquiet — lack of calm, peace, or ease; anxiety; uneasiness.
• perplex — to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
• bother — If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
• disconcert — to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
• nonplus — to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely.
• disturb — to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
• fluster — to put into a state of agitated confusion: His constant criticism flustered me.
• mystify — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
• discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
• dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
• faze — to cause to be disturbed or disconcerted; daunt: The worst insults cannot faze him.
• alarm — Alarm is a feeling of fear or anxiety that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
• upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
• scare — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
• paralyze — to affect with paralysis.
• discomfit — to confuse and deject; disconcert: to be discomfited by a question.
• discompose — to upset the order of; disarrange; disorder; unsettle: The breeze discomposed the bouquet.
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• terrorize — to fill or overcome with terror.
• affright — to frighten
• snafu — a badly confused or ridiculously muddled situation: A ballot snafu in the election led to a recount. Synonyms: snarl, bedlam, tumult, disarray, disorder, confusion, mess; foul-up. Antonyms: order, efficiency, calm.
• unhinge — to remove (a door or the like) from hinges.
• abash — to cause to feel ill at ease, embarrassed, or confused; make ashamed
• throw — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
• chill — When you chill something or when it chills, you lower its temperature so that it becomes colder but does not freeze.
• foul up — something that is foul.
• mess up — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
• put off — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
• screw up — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
• louse up — any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
• get to — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• muck up — a bungled or disordered situation; foul-up.
• take aback — to astonish or disconcert