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scandalize

[ skan-dl-ahyz ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

, scan·dal·ized, scan·dal·iz·ing.

to shock or horrify by something considered immoral or improper.
Nautical. to spill the wind from or reduce the exposed area of (a sail) in an unusual manner.

scandalize

/ ˈskændəˌlaɪz /

1480–90; < Late Latin scandalizāre < Late Greek skandalízein. See scandal, -ize

And if thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee.

They had learned to play there like two well-brought-up children, in pantomime, so as not to scandalize pious countryfolk.

To propose to bury a dog in the historic churchyard would scandalize the city.

Yet I cannot believe, but the meanness of my habit must needs scandalize you.

If she stayed another moment she knew she should inevitably say something that would scandalize Madeleine.

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