despair

Definition for despair

noun as in depression, hopelessness

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anguish, desperation, despondency, discouragement, gloom, melancholy, misery, pain, sorrow

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dejection, disheartenment, forlornness, ordeal, trial, tribulation, wretchedness

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dashed hopes

verb as in give up hope

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abandon, despond, destroy, drop, flatten, relinquish, renounce, resign, surrender, yield

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be hopeless, give way, have heavy heart, let air out, lose faith, lose heart, take down

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I go back and forth between despairing and defiant.

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The MP also said he regularly read "heart-breaking posts" on local forums from parents in "utter despair" begging for baby food donations to tide them over until the next pay day.

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Traveling through the mountains of Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico, I heard accounts of migrants suffering shortages of food and climate-driven despair that had forced them to move.

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In the midst of despair the local population are understandably searching for beacons of hope, for example the remarkable story of what happened at the Whitby English language school.

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Any public voice who suggests that everything is going to be fine and that panic or despair are unwarranted should not be taken seriously.

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