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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

Humiliated also by the cold reception he had met and by the consciousness of extreme unpopularity in both armies, he was embarrassed and deject.

From The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Reason and respect Make livers pale and lustihood deject.

From Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare




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