deject
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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
That name and compellation of "little flock" doth not comfort, but deject, my devotion; especially when I reflect upon mine own unworthiness, wherein, accord- ing to my humble apprehensions, I am below them all.
From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Sir Thomas Browne
The flesh is a strong giant, very full of pride and lust of living, and the spirit must needs keep watch and ward, seizing every opportunity to mortify and deject its adversary.
From To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston
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