despair

Definition for despair

noun as in depression, hopelessness

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anguish, desperation, despondency, discouragement, gloom, melancholy, misery, pain, sorrow

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dejection, disheartenment, forlornness, ordeal, trial, tribulation, wretchedness

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dashed hopes

verb as in give up hope

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abandon, despond, destroy, drop, flatten, relinquish, renounce, resign, surrender, yield

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be hopeless, give way, have heavy heart, let air out, lose faith, lose heart, take down

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He said that rather than sink in despair, he chose to remain optimistic and keep moving to “show them what you do when something this traumatic and dramatic happens to you.”

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Some may wish to avoid Loktev’s film because of those despairing parallels.

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Joy, confusion, fascination and despair take over her entire face instantaneously, turning Buckley’s performance into an acting exercise of being raw and present.

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“Right now our message is to have faith, do not despair,” Olvera said.

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"Instead of you concentrating on your grief and your despair and your desperation for that person, you're now in a different role."

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