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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

So that the truly humble man is always easy, whether it please God to give or take away, and nothing can happen to him, to exalt or deject him above measure.

From True Christianity by Johann Arndt

But even to-night," said Lahnar, "let my friend take some little nourishment, that she may rise refreshed; for fasting will deject you as well as grief; and suffer me to partake with you.

From Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers by L. (Laura) Valentine




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