English-Portuguese translations for dismay

• assombrar
• espanto
  Porém, tenho agora de perguntar, com algum espanto, o que é que sucedeu com a Finlândia? Now, I have to ask with some dismay: what has happened to Finland?
  Senhora Presidente, não podemos deixar de manifestar espanto e desânimo acerca do que ouvimos aqui hoje, em especial ao representante do Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros britânico. Madam President, we cannot but express astonishment and dismay about what we have heard today, particularly from the British Foreign Office gentleman.

Definition of dismay

• To cause to feel apprehension; great sadness, or fear; to deprive of energy
• To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet
• To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay
• A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits
• Condition fitted to dismay; ruin

Examples

• He looked in dismay at the destruction of the town caused by the hurricane

Related words

• dismal
• dismantle
• dismally
• dismaying
• dismayed
• dismantling
• dismast
• dismantlement
• dismantlable