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despairing

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"Without hope"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /dɪˈspɛə.ɹɪŋ/Part of speech adjectiveSorted adegiinprsStarts with DEnds with G1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Feeling or showing complete loss of hope.

Word origin

From Middle English despeyringe, equivalent to despair + -ing.

Used in a sentence

  • He was beginning to forget his burdening, despairing mood of a short while ago.
  • But what things soever passed in him, when he ceased to see it; what ragings and despairings soever Teufelsdröckh's soul was the scene of, he has the goodness to conceal under a quite opaque cover of Silence.

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