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DISPIRIT
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they dispirit ... he / she / it dispirits
Past simple: dispirited
Past participle: dispirited
-ing form: dispiriting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
Example:
The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her
Synonyms:
cast down; deject; demoralise; demoralize; depress; dismay; dispirit; get down
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "dispirit" is one way to...):
discourage (deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dispirit"):
chill (depress or discourage)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sentence example:
The bad news will dispirit him
Context examples:
That wine was not imported among us from foreign countries to supply the want of water or other drinks, but because it was a sort of liquid which made us merry by putting us out of our senses, diverted all melancholy thoughts, begat wild extravagant imaginations in the brain, raised our hopes and banished our fears, suspended every office of reason for a time, and deprived us of the use of our limbs, till we fell into a profound sleep; although it must be confessed, that we always awaked sick and dispirited; and that the use of this liquor filled us with diseases which made our lives uncomfortable and short.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
