6 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
verb strike with disgust or revulsion
verb fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
originFrom Middle English apallen, from Old French apalir (“to grow pale, make pale”); a (Latin ad) + palir (“to grow pale, to make pale”), pâle (“pale”), from pallere. See pale (adj.) and compare with pall.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0