Syn. -- Dejection; discouragement; depression; fear; fright; terror; apprehension; alarm; affright.
Dis*may"ed*ness (?), n. A state of being dismayed; dejection of courage; dispiritedness.
Dis*may"ful (?), a. Terrifying. Spenser.
||Disme (?), n. [OF. See Dime.] A tenth; a tenth part; a tithe. Ayliffe.
Dis*mem"ber (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dismembered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dismembering.] [OF. desmembrer, F. démembrer; pref. des- (L. dis) + OF. & F. membre limb. See Member.] 1. To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.
Fowls obscene dismembered his remains.
Pope.
A society lacerated and dismembered.
Gladstone.
By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire.
Buckle.