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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dispirit .
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Examples
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Personal wealth hardly dispirits the adventure-seeker, eh?
A Remarkably Ignorant Posting from a Former NASA History Writer - NASA Watch 2007
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Hillary Unites and Excites Republicans while she divides and dispirits democrats.
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All this “moderated” Give him a Chance Tone just dispirits the troops I mean, Conservative voters - IMHO anyway
Are Republicans Finally Uniting? - Erick’s blog - RedState 2009
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Hillary Unites and Excites Republicans while she divides and dispirits democrats.
What's Next: The Battle For Edwards Delegates And Supporters 2009
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“Sitting!” repeated Mr Meadows, with a yawn, “O worse and worse! it dispirits me to death! it robs me of all fire and life! it weakens circulation, and destroys elasticity.”
Cecilia 2008
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Such an interpretation cheapens the meaning of the First Amendment and dispirits Americans from fighting to keep those protections.
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My point is that not only are these pundits often wrong, but their message either dispirits the troops (in the case of convincing them that they can't win the race), or it lulls the troops into a false sense of security, which is dangerous as hell.
06/03/2004 2004
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A book or statement which goes to show that there is no line, but random and chaos, a calamity out of nothing, a prosperity and no account of it, a hero born from a fool, a fool from a hero, — dispirits us.
Representative Men 2006
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However, nothing dispirits, and nothing seems worth while disputing.
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Since this is the season when humidity especially soddens and boredom particularly dispirits, mightn't we impute the same high taste to Bill Bradley's choice of a day in August for announcing that he cannot endure further service in the Senate?
Bradley's Escape Kempton, Murray 1995
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