appallとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 apallen, from Old French apalir (“to grow pale, make pale”); a (Latin ad) + palir (“to grow pale, to make pale”), pâle (“pale”), from pallere. See pale (adj.) and compare with pall.

発音

• enPR: ə-pôlʹ, IPA: /əˈpɔːl/
• 韻: -ɔːl

動詞

appall (third-person singular simple present appalls, present participle appalling, simple past and past participle appalled)

1. (transitive) To fill with horror or indignation; to dismay.

   Synonyms: terrify, daunt, frighten, scare, depress, (archaic) affright; see also Thesaurus:frighten

   The evidence put forth at the court appalled most of the jury.

   • 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:

     The house of peers was somewhat appalled at this alarum.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To make pale; to blanch.
   • c. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Thanſwere that ye made to me my dere”, in Egerton MS 2711‎, page 63r:

     Thanſwere that ye made to me my dere
     whañ I did ſewe for my poore hartes redreſſe
     hathe ſo apalld my countenaunce […]

3. (transitive, obsolete) To weaken; to reduce in strength
   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

     wine of it owne nature will not congeale and freeze, onely it will loose the strength, and become appalled in extremitie of cold.

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To lose flavor or to become stale.

使用する際の注意点

• Most British dictionaries consider appal the sole standard UK spelling (although, as with other words ending in a single vowel followed by an l, the l is always doubled for derivatives such as appalling).

派生語

参照

• “appall”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• palpal