Synonyms for deject

Grammar : Verb

Spell : dih-jekt

Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈdʒɛkt

Définition of deject

Origin : early 15c., "to throw or cast down," from Old French dejeter (12c.), from Latin deiectus "a throwing down, felling, fall," past participle of deicere "to cast down, destroy; drive out; kill, slay, defeat," from de- "down" + -icere, comb. form of iacere "to throw" (see jet (v.)). Originally literal; the sense of "depress in spirit" is c.1500.

verb lower spirits

Example sentences :

The things which do not disturb her temper may, perhaps, deject her spirits.
Extract from : « A Strange Story, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

And I alone, of all men “most deject and wretched,” survive them all.
Extract from : « The Life of Florence Nightingale vol. 1 of 2 » by Edward Tyas Cook

This did not dishearten or deject the golden party; far from it.
Extract from : « Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. » by Francois Rabelais

I must deject you now and make you listen to me; there is not much more to hear.
Extract from : « Look Back on Happiness » by Knut Hamsun

For one, the worst event of this day, though it may deject, shall not break or subdue me.
Extract from : « The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. III. (of 12) » by Edmund Burke

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