Deject

Word DEJECT
Character 6
Hyphenation de ject
Pronunciations /dɪˈdʒɛkt/

Definitions and meanings of "Deject"

What do we mean by deject?

To lower the spirits of; dishearten. transitive verb

Downcast; low-spirited; wretched; dejected.

To cast or throw down: direct downward.

To abate; lower; diminish in force or amount.

To depress the spirits of; dispirit; discourage; dishearten: now chiefly in the past participle used adjectively. See dejected.

Synonyms To sadden, make despondent, afflict, grieve.

To cast down. transitive verb

To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten. transitive verb

Dejected. adjective

Make sad or dispirited. verb

Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted verb

Make sad or dispirited.

To cast down.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Deject

The word "deject" in example sentences

You did not deject any love, the beat of your heart, ❋ Unknown (2009)

One deject and unresponsive widow has even been seen to bounce back to her former brilliance through the hard work and puppy love provided by a service animal. ❋ Wendy Diamond (2011)

To further examine Gratia, it is necessary to consider events that happen before the play begins: as a woman, Gratia's position at court depended on her husband's, who was banished from court a few years prior, as shown in her exchange with Vindice where he says: The Duke did much deject him ... ❋ Fantasyecho (2008)

I hereby renounce and deject this superdelegate and the President he served. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A thousand times, YES! idiotic must reject and denounce and deject and renounce and project and pronounce and eject and enounce. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think on Fridays we're supposed to both renounce and deject the story. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The same argument used for hollow point munition could be used for nerve gas: armed suspects often resist wounds from ball munition, just as advancing rioters often resist asphyxiation from tear gas; hollow point munition as more lethal than ball more likely would deject armed suspects, just as nerve gas as more lethal than tear gas would also more likely deject advancing rioters. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Not only did he not renounce and deject -- er ... denounce and reject -- the comments from his now "good friend" GW Bush and Rove and the rest of that ilk, he didn't apologize then for his vote and lack of support for the MLK holiday and any number of other bills and issues that would matter to the African-Americans in his constituency. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She could have said "If that's accurate, then I of course denounce, reject, deject and renounce it" ❋ Unknown (2009)

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition: it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cooled imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Polynices in his conference with Jocasta in [2385] Euripides, reckons up five miseries of a banished man, the least of which alone were enough to deject some pusillanimous creatures. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Their ghostly fathers can so readily apply remedies, so cunningly string and unstring, wind and unwind their devotions, play upon their consciences with plausible speeches and terrible threats, for their best advantage settle and remove, erect with such facility and deject, let in and out, that I cannot perceive how any man amongst them should much or often labour of this disease, or finally miscarry. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Many masters are hard-hearted, and bitter to their servants, and by that means do so deject, with terrible speeches and hard usage so crucify them, that they become desperate, and can never be recalled. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I don't mean to deject from the structured journalism that this website is meant to be. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I seeke for, though he be but of meane and base condition, yet it plainely appeareth, that he is of no deject or common understanding. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I must deject you now and make you listen to me; there is not much more to hear. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Flint shook his gray head, climbed off the mound, came around to her side, and stood with his arms crossed deject - edly. ❋ Kirchoff, Mary (2003)

This did not dishearten or deject the golden party; far from it. ❋ Unknown (2002)

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