| dismay | (noun) fear resulting from the awareness of danger | Synonyms: alarm, consternation |
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| (noun) the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles | Synonyms: discouragement, disheartenment |
| (verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: alarm, appal, appall, horrify |
| (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dispirit, get down |
| may | (noun) thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America | Synonyms: Crataegus laevigata, Crataegus oxycantha, English hawthorn, whitethorn |
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