deject

Definition

Make sad or dispirited.

Etymology

From Old French dejeter, from Latin deicere (“to throw down”).

Example Sentences

• "[…] 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."
• "On the other hand, there is nothing which dejects school children quite so much as failure."
• "[…] sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look."