Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To lower the spirits of; dishearten.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
- Downcast; low-spirited; wretched; dejected.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Dejected.
- transitive verb Obs. or Archaic To cast down.
- transitive verb To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, rare Make
sad ordispirited .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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You did not deject any love, the beat of your heart,
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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: International Widows Day Opens Eyes, Hearts Wendy Diamond 2011
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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: International Widows Day Opens Eyes, Hearts Wendy Diamond 2011
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You did not deject any love, the beat of your heart,
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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 ...
Final drafting stuff: fantasyecho 2008
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I hereby renounce and deject this superdelegate and the President he served.
Obama Campaign Moving Joe Andrew All Over Indiana Today 2009
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A thousand times, YES! idiotic must reject and denounce and deject and renounce and project and pronounce and eject and enounce.
Big Pro-Hillary Third-Party Group Won't Be Funding Ads In West Virginia 2009
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I think on Fridays we're supposed to both renounce and deject the story.
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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.
McCain: I Was Wrong To Vote Against Making MLK Day A Holiday 2009
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She could have said "If that's accurate, then I of course denounce, reject, deject and renounce it"
Latino Hillary Supporter: Obama's Problem Is He's Black 2009
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