Deject Definition

dĭ-jĕkt
dejects
verb
dejects
To cast down in spirit; dishearten; depress.
Webster's New World

Make sad or dispirited.

Wiktionary
Fuller.
Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
adjective
Dejected.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:

Origin of Deject

  • Middle English dejecten from Latin dēicere dēiect- to cast down dē- de- iacere to throw yē- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French dejeter, from Latin deicere (“to throw down”).

    From Wiktionary

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Words Starting With

DDEDEJ

Words Ending With

TCTECT

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