SCANDALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scandalize mean? 

• SCANDALIZE (verb)
  The verb SCANDALIZE has 1 sense:

1. strike with disgust or revulsion

  Familiarity information: SCANDALIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCANDALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they scandalize    ... he / she / it scandalizes   
Past simple: scandalized   
Past participle: scandalized   
-ing form: scandalizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Strike with disgust or revulsion

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

appal; appall; offend; outrage; scandalise; scandalize; shock

Context example:

The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends

Hypernyms (to "scandalize" is one way to...):

churn up; disgust; nauseate; revolt; sicken (cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

The bad news will scandalize him
The performance is likely to scandalize Sue

Derivation:

scandal (disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people)

scandal (a disgraceful event)

scandalization (the act of scandalizing)

 Context examples 

You haven't gone and accepted him, child? cried Aunt March, looking scandalized.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But there was a scandalized whisper of “Hush!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The idea amused Jo, who liked to do daring things and was always scandalizing Meg by her queer performances.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The conflicting interests of these touting gentlemen being of a nature to irritate their feelings, personal collisions took place; and the Commons was even scandalized by our principal inveigler (who had formerly been in the wine trade, and afterwards in the sworn brokery line) walking about for some days with a black eye.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mercy on us, what are the children thinking of? and Jo looked as much scandalized as if Amy and little Parker were not yet in their teens.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

After supper she undertook the German, and blundered through it, nearly upsetting her partner with her long skirt, and romping in a way that scandalized Laurie, who looked on and meditated a lecture.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Prone upon the floor lay Mr. March, with his respectable legs in the air, and beside him, likewise prone, was Demi, trying to imitate the attitude with his own short, scarlet-stockinged legs, both grovelers so seriously absorbed that they were unconscious of spectators, till Mr. Bhaer laughed his sonorous laugh, and Jo cried out, with a scandalized face...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

On the second Saturday after Jo got out of the window, Meg, as she sat sewing at her window, was scandalized by the sight of Laurie chasing Jo all over the garden and finally capturing her in Amy's bower.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There were to be no ceremonious performances, everything was to be as natural and homelike as possible, so when Aunt March arrived, she was scandalized to see the bride come running to welcome and lead her in, to find the bridegroom fastening up a garland that had fallen down, and to catch a glimpse of the paternal minister marching upstairs with a grave countenance and a wine bottle under each arm.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)