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deject

[dih-jekt] / dɪˈdʒɛkt /
VERB
lower spirits
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This way they can get more skilled personnel and also effectively deject any missiles from Yemen.

From New York Times Dec. 4, 2017

Yet better the excess Than the deject; better the more than less; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Beautifully 'a lady most deject and wretched,' she intones the bitter honeyed lines as if they were her own, and Ophelia's, not alone Shakespeare's.

From Time Magazine Archive

Naturally of a pensive disposition, the recollection of his father, forced on his mind by every object, cannot fail still more to deject him.

From The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes by Sophia Reeve

I was the more deceived! and the lines— And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows, &c. will never forget their exquisite pathos.

From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. III (of 3) by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson




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