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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

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

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

But what seemed to vex and deject them most was a rumour that Quartermaster-General Murray had been sent down from the front on leave of absence for England.

From The Adventures of Harry Revel by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

For one, the worst event of this day, though it may deject, shall not break or subdue me.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke




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