Appalled
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Middle English: from Old French apalir ‘grow pale’, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to, at’) + palir ‘to pale’. The original sense was ‘grow pale’, later ‘make pale’, hence ‘horrify’ (late Middle English).
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appalled (adj.)
1570s, "enfeebled;" c. 1600, "dismayed;" past-participle adjective from appall.