deject
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deject
- /dɪˈdʒɛkt/ UK
Rhymes with -ɛkt
Where it comes from
From Old French dejeter, from Latin dēiectus, past participle of dēicere (“to throw down”), from dē- (“from, down from”) + iacere (“to throw”).
verb dejects · dejecting · dejected
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Make sad or dispirited.
[…] the Thoughts of my Friends, and native Country, and the Improbability of ever seeing them again, made me very melancholy; and dejected me to that Degree, that sometimes I could not forbear indulging my Grief in private, and bursting out into a Flood of Tears.
Similar: depress, get down, aggrieve, attrist, begloom, begrieve, besorrow, grieve, pain, bring down, come down on, contristate
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To cast downward.
[…] sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look.
Similar: downcast, throw down
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To debase or humble.
... as also we might have more feeling and sense of our sweet Saviour Jesus Christ, by the humbling and dejecting of us, thereby to make us, as more desirous of him, so him more sweet and pleasant unto us: the which thing the good Spirit of God work sensibly in all our hearts, for God's holy name's
Similar: abase, humiliate, put someone in their place
noun dejects
- One who is lowly or abject. Lovers, lovers, football brothers; rejects, dejects, clowns and crakaz: boot him one, in the nakaz!
- A waste product. ... the bacteriological examination of the dejects of all persons presenting choleraic symptoms and of all persons who have been exposed to infection and who have loose and frequent discharges from the bowels; the disinfection of the dejects of such persons and of all articles which may possibly be
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verb make sad or dispirited
| 中文 | 使灰心, 使沮丧 |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | deprimieren, bedrücken, betrüben |
| Русский | обескура́живать obeskuráživatʹ, удруча́ть udručátʹ, угнета́ть ugnetátʹ, подавля́ть podavljátʹ, приводи́ть в уны́ние privodítʹ v unýnije |
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