Despond

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  • intransitive verb. To become disheartened or discouraged.
  • noun. Despondency.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Despondency.
  • To lose heart, resolution, or hope; be cast down; be depressed or dejected in mind.
  • Synonyms Despair, Despond. Despair implies a total loss of hope; despond does not. Despondency produces a disposition to relax or relinquish effort; despair generally stops all effort. See despair, n.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Despondency.
  • intransitive verb. To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view.
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  • verb. To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to become dejected, lose heart.
  • noun. Despondency.
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  • verb. lose confidence or hope; become dejected
    • Word Usage
    "D.H. Hill's division was at White Oak Swamp Creek, a slough, and one of "despond" to us, draining to the Chickahominy."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    hope  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    despair  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Silurian  ashantee  death-in-life  death-stricken  flaggy  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abandon hope  become suicidal  brood  despair  despair  
    verb-form
    desponded  desponding  desponds  
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