Synonyms of the word

scandalize

• v. To shock someone.
• v. To be offensive to someone.
• v. (nautical) To reduce the area and efficiency of a sail by expedient means (e.g. slacking the peak and…

appal

• v. (Britain, less common) Alternative spelling of appall.

appall

• v. (transitive) To fill with horror; to dismay.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make pale; to blanch.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To weaken; to reduce in strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To lose flavour or become stale.

disgust

• v. To cause an intense dislike for something.
• n. An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.

nauseate

• v. (transitive) To cause nausea in.
• v. (transitive) To disgust.
• v. (intransitive) To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To reject or spit (something) out because it causes a feeling of nausea.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To be disgusted by (something).

offend

• v. (transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
• v. (intransitive) To feel or become offended, take insult.
• v. (transitive) To physically harm, pain.
• v. (transitive) To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
• v. (intransitive) To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
• v. (transitive) To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical) To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.

outrage

• n. An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
• n. An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
• n. The resentful anger aroused by such acts.
• n. (obsolete) A destructive rampage.
• v. (transitive) To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To violate; to rape (a female).
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To rage in excess of.

revolt

• v. To rebel, particularly against authority.
• v. To repel greatly.
• v. To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
• v. (intransitive) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at.
• v. To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
• n. an act of revolt.

scandalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of scandalize.

shock

• n. Sudden, heavy impact.
• n. (mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
• v. To cause to be emotionally shocked.
• v. To give an electric shock.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
• n. An arrangement of sheaves for drying, a stook.
• n. (commerce, dated) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
• n. (by extension) A tuft or bunch of something (e.g. hair, grass).
• n. (obsolete, by comparison) A small dog with long shaggy hair, especially a poodle or spitz; a shaggy lapdog.
• v. To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.

sicken

• v. (transitive) To make ill.
• v. (intransitive) To become ill.
• v. (transitive) To fill with disgust or abhorrence.
• v. (sports) To lower the standing of.
• v. (intransitive) To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.
• v. (intransitive) To become disgusting or tedious.
• v. (intransitive) To become weak; to decay; to languish.