(v. t.) To make aghast; to frighten; to terrify. See Aghast.
Example Sentences:
(1) 69: 1709-1717, 1990) we reported that gastrocnemius (GAST) muscle enlargement failed to occur after 10 wk of 192 contractions performed every 3rd or 4th day.
(2) Hist and Gast caused an increase of PGE2 contents in gastric mucosa.
(3) As in the GAST, results showed that TA protein synthesis rates are increased by acute exercise and principally regulated by translational and possibly posttranslational mechanisms.
(4) Not everyone is convinced... Darius Tahir (@dariustahir) @KidWeil My gast is properly flabbered that Brad Evans is starting.
(5) This indicated that the regulation of protein expression may be different between the GAST and TA muscles.
(6) According to the clinical signs and the result of gastric acid secretion test, (GAST) parietal cell vagotomy (PCV) and selective vagotomy plus antrectomy (SV+A) were performed in 100 and 138 cases respectively.
(7) The gastric protective effects of Hist and Gast were inhibited by pretreatment with cimetidine, timoprazole and indomethacin.
(8) These results suggest that the gastric protective effect of Hist and Gast, induced by the increase of acidity in gastric juice, is due to the endogenous PGE2 synthesized by the stimulation of acid in the gastric mucosa.
(9) Biopsies were taken from the gastrocnemius (gast) and vastus lateralis (vl) muscles as representatives of muscles recruited during Tr and Cy exercise, respectively.
(10) • 5 rue Crespin du Gast, 75011, must phone to arrange visit on +33 1 43 55 52 72, no website Père Lachaise Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Piaf family plot at Père Lachaise cemetery.
(11) GAST obtained its peak EMG activity at 104 degrees at a point when it was still lengthening.
(12) Recently, de Gast and colleagues reviewed the role of environmental antigens in the pathogenesis of GVHD and suggested that immunological responses to environmental antigens by the transplanted donor cells might contribute to an increased donor anti-recipient response.
(13) After confirmation with complementary tests made with manually GAST, RPR with microscopic reading, haemagglutination, and lastly fluorescent method, it appears that the rate of positive reactions is 1,7%.
(14) The follow-up data showed that recurrence rate could be greatly reduced if the mode of vagotomy was selected according to results of GAST.
(15) Daly was the intermediary who pulled many of the interested parties together – and, as a prize, he got to commentate on the fight for Leon Gast’s celebrated film, When We Were Kings.
(16) In cells from gasted rats, where lactate production is greatly reduced and the rate of glucose synthesis is elevated, glucagon did not stimulate gluconeogenesis from dihydroxyacetone.
(17) The differential response in muscle mass between the GAST and TA muscles after training may be due, in part, to greater relative resistances imposed on the TA than on the GAST that result in a more-prolonged effect on protein synthesis rates, with lower numbers of stimulated contractions required to stimulate increases in protein synthesis.
(18) Maxi and Gast compressors increased the quantity of "respirable" (less than 5 micron diameter) carbenicillin aerosol, and reduced nebulisation times; with the weaker compressors, nebulisation times (up to 50 min) were unacceptably long.
(19) The amount of G4 was increased by more than 50% in the ankle extensors GAST and PL, which play a dynamic role, and reduced by about 40% in the ankle flexors TA and EDL, which exhibit a predominant tonic activity during running.
(20) The apparition of Groupamatic has incitated M. GARRETTA to adapt on this material the K. Antigen reagent manufactured by the Blood Transfusion Center in Lille and has led to the definition of GAST reagent (Groupamatic automated syphilis test).
Ghast
Definition:
(a.) To strike aghast; to affright.
Example Sentences:
(1) Coming shortly after the regime's successful third nuclear weapons test, Rodman's public declaration that he was Kim's "friend for life ", and the young premier's ability to parade his western visitors on state media, angered critics who argued that the country's ghastly poverty and brutal human rights violations were inadequately reflected.
(2) Since the banking crash of 2008 – "a ghastly political situation as well as a financial problem because it was so much to do with greed" – over a third of the practice's new work is in the far east.
(3) My recollections of the one execution I attended amount to memories of a ghastly, surrealistic encounter with justice.
(4) What’s happened is ghastly but we’ve got to ask ourselves some big questions,” he said.
(5) During a prolific career stretching back almost half a century, the Swedish author Henning Mankell, best known for his Wallander series, has produced several million words, many of them dealing with ghastly crimes.
(6) When I am asked who I consider a role model (another ghastly word), Shirley usually comes to mind.
(7) The lexicon of conflict in a place such as Kashmir engenders normalisation of even the most ghastly thing.
(8) But the most ghastly sketch and one I still find terribly funny was The Liver Donor .
(9) Hare accused the trend spotters of the early 21st century of lining up eagerly to pretend the controversy which raged around Look Back In Anger was "some kind of ghastly mistake".
(10) Not only have the people spoken and won, but the old administration, Obama and all those ghastly people, are out and the Trump people are in,” he said.
(11) One of the more brilliant concerns a weekend at the home of a ghastly senior professor.
(12) "Interviewing the rapists was ghastly," she says, "but the worst moment was when they left.
(13) Economies may fail, banking systems may collapse, but we'll always have Davos , late capitalism's annual attempt to recreate the experience of what it would be like to spend eternity in hell's most ghastly private members' club.
(14) The cost of inaction or further delaying our response is too ghastly to contemplate,” said David Phiri, subregional coordinator for Southern Africa at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
(15) At least the champions did not totally crumple but ultimately it was a futile exercise, delaying their first spell of prolonged pressure until Sergio Agüero had scored twice, Yaya Touré had pinched another and Nasri had rounded off a ghastly five-minute spell for United at the start of the second half when David de Gea was beaten twice in quick succession.
(16) The World Trade Organisation has had a truly ghastly week, the sort that would make governments or cabinet ministers resign.
(17) But back in the General Staff's Versailles-like HQ, among the columns, frescos and sweeping staircases, the Fragonards and the Bouchers on the walls and the marble floors underfoot, the aristocrats and the officer class – their faces mean, smug, scarred or fat – trade ghastly obscenities about acceptable death tolls and national honour, their moral universe and patterns of thought throttled by protocol, precedent, military codes and banal social etiquette.
(18) The main problem is that Hague recommended including 15 Polish MEPs from the Law and Justice party, which has absorbed the even more extreme nationalist League of Polish Families (described on the BBC's Today Programme by Poland's chief rabbi as "beyond the pale" because of their anti-Semitism) and the ghastly League of Self-Defence.
(19) In May 2002, when dissident soldiers mutinied against their commanders in the central city of Kisangani, Monuc troops did almost nothing as those commanders (including Laurent Nkunda) oversaw the killing of at least 80 civilians and a ghastly bout of rape.
(20) Stafford Smith said: "Shaker was absolutely thrilled with the letter from Hague, it shows how a certain amount of personal commitment by someone in power can help someone who has been downtrodden in such a ghastly way.