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What (who) is appal - definition
appal
see appall
appal
(appals, appalling, appalled)
Note: in AM, use 'appall'
If something appals you, it disgusts you because it seems so bad or unpleasant.
His ignorance appals me...
= horrify
VERB: V n
appal
(US appall)
¦ verb (appals, appalling, appalled)
1. greatly dismay or horrify.
2. [as adjective appalling] very bad or displeasing.
Derivatives
appallingly adverb
Origin
ME: from OFr. apalir 'grow pale'.
Examples of use of appal
1. But failure to appoint a reliable conservative would appal Mr Bushs right–wing base.
2. But underestimating the junta‘s ability to appal is always a mistake.
3. The terrorist attacks appal us because of the loss of life, but even more because the killing is deliberate.
4. These disclosures will appal the Saudi Royal Family, notorious for obsessive secrecy, which has been braced for embarrassing revelations when the case is heard in London in November.
5. It will transfix, appal and make the reader wonder out loud: what does the chillingly detailed description of a murderous night in 1''4 tell us about the guilt of the man who wrote it?