dismay
US /dɪˈsmeɪ/
UK /dɪˈsmeɪ/
1.
a feeling of unhappiness and disappointment:
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Aid workers were said to have been filled with dismay by the appalling conditions that the refugees were living in.
1.
to make someone feel unhappy and disappointed:
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The prospect of more road-building dismays environmentalists.