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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

This did not dishearten or deject the golden party; far from it.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Peter Anthony Motteux

The flesh is a strong giant, very full of pride and lust of living, and the spirit must needs keep watch and ward, seizing every opportunity to mortify and deject its adversary.

From To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston




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