Synonyms for scandalize
Definitions
- v. 1
To cause great offense to (someone); to shock with something scandalous.
Overhearing the lewd joke, the dowager gave a scandalized gasp.
Related words
- Word family
- scandalisation
- Other spellings
- scandalise UK
Forms
- Past participle
- scandalized
e.g. scandalized → offended, shocked, outraged, disgraced…
Example sentences
- shock I expect him to get over the shock of his failure.
- outrage The illegal dump in the park is a source of outrage.
- disgrace What you did brought disgrace on the whole class.
- offend I can never allow you to offend my wife like this.
By length
- 4 letters
- slur1
- 5 letters
- shock1, smear1, libel2, appal
- 6 letters
- offend2, malign2, defame2, vilify3, revile2, appall2
- 7 letters
- scandal2, outrage2, slander2, detract2, lampoon2, asperse
- 8 letters
- disgrace2, reproach2
- 9 letters
- denigrate3
- 10 letters
- calumniate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (libel2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- scandaliser
- Italiano
- scandalizzare
- Deutsch
- skandalisieren
- Català
- escandalitzar