appal
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
strike with disgust or revulsion
The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends
Types & categories
- sicken hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | scandalization |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | scandal |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | scandal |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | shock |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | outrage |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | shocker |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | offensive |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | unsavory |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | noisome |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | sicken |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | alarm |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | horror |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | alarmist |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | fright |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | shock |