scandalise

Questions about scandalise

What does scandalise mean?

scandalise means "strike with disgust or revulsion".

How many syllables are in scandalise?

scandalise has 3 syllables and divides as scan-da-lise under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for scandalise?

Close synonyms include shock, offend, scandalize, appal, appall. 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 scandalise a common word?

scandalise 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.