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deject

[dih-jekt] / dɪˈdʒɛkt /
VERB
lower spirits
Synonyms


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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

Why, brother Hector, We may not think the justness of each act Such and no other than event doth form it; Nor once deject the courage of our minds Because Cassandra's mad.

From Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare, William

I am all disordered: I know not what I am saying to your Majesty: I am of all ladies most deject and wretched— SHAKESPEAR.

From Dark Lady of the Sonnets by Shaw, Bernard