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despond

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7 lettersPronunciation /dɪˈspɒnd/Part of speech verbSorted ddenopsStarts with DEnds with D0 clues
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Definitions

  1. lose confidence or hope; become dejected

Word origin

From Latin dēspondeō (“give up, abandon”), from dē (“from”) + spondeō (“promise”).

Used in a sentence

  • Yet still despond not, but proceed Along the path where fate may lead.
  • October 16, 1820, Thomas Scott, letter to the Rev. G. Knight, Harwell I should despair, or at least despond.
  • Others depress their own minds, [and] despond at the first difficulty.

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