English

Etymology
Latin deicere 'to throw down'.

Pronunciation
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�kt|-�kt

Transitive verb
rfc-trverb|Transitive verb
en-verb|dejects|dejecting|dejected

1. rare Make sad or dispirited.

#: "I pitied poor Miss Read's unfortunate situation. She was generally dejected, seldom cheerful, and avoided company" -Benjamin Franklin

Quotations
1927 Harold Victor Routh: God, Man, & Epic Poetry: A Study in Comparative Literature ¹ (page 215)
:Vergil succeeds in filling Hades with all that depresses and dejects in his world, so that Aeneas encounters the causes of Augustan pessimism.
1933 Arthur Melville Jordan: Educational Psychology (page 60) ²
:On the other hand, there is nothing which dejects school children quite so much as failure.

Derived terms
dejected
dejection

fa:deject
io:deject
vi:deject
zh:deject

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