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appalments

appalments is the plural of appalment.

Meaning of appalment

Noun

appalment (countable and uncountable, plural appalments)

  1. The state of being appalled or alarmed.
    • One patient, in walking through the street, may be quite appalled at the approach of a runaway horse. The degree of appalment in another may be quite trifling.1834, John Ashburner, On dentition and some coincident disorders, page 226

Questions about appalments

What is appalments the plural of?
Appalments is the plural of appalment.

Words near appalments in the dictionary

  1. appallingness
  2. appallment
  3. appalls
  4. appalmed
  5. appalment
  6. appalments
  7. Appalonia
  8. appaloosa
  9. appaloosas
  10. Appalousa
  11. appals

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