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DISPIRIT

• DISPIRIT (verb)
The verb DISPIRIT has 1 sense:

1. lower someone's spirits; make downhearted

Familiarity information: DISPIRIT used as a verb is very rare.

• DISPIRIT (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

cast down; deject; depress; dismay; dispirit; demoralise; demoralize; get down

Context examples:

These news depressed her / The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her

Hypernyms (to "dispirit" is one way to...):

discourage (deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dispirit"):

chill (depress or discourage)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The bad news will dispirit him

"Hawks will not pick out hawks' eyes."
(English proverb)
"Drop by drop would make a lake."
(Azerbaijani proverb)
"Suspicion is the sister of the wrong."
(Arabic proverb)
"A thin cat and a fat woman are the shame of a household."
(Corsican proverb)

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