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
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
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
To abate is used by Shakespeare in the original sense of abatre, to depress, to sink, to deject, to subdue.
From Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies by Samuel Johnson
Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence, by asserting, that all conditions are levelled by death; a position which, however it may deject the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson
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