appall

Other forms of appall

past tense

appalled·

present participle

appalling·

third person

appalls·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about appall

What does appall mean?

appall means "strike with disgust or revulsion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in appall?

appall has 2 syllables: ap-pall. The stress falls on "pall". In IPA it is /əˈpɔl/.

What is another word for appall?

Close synonyms include shock, offend, scandalize, scandalise, appal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is appall a common word?

appall is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with appall?

4 words rhyme with appall. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.