despair

Object

• dive: Steve Brooker shot on the turn, the ball eluding Price's despairing dive.
• cry: With a despairing cry I pitched over backward into the night sky.
• thought: Too often the first despairing thought is, " Who will want me now?

Converse of object

• alleviate: Samaritans believes that offering people the opportunity to be listened to in confidence and accepted without prejudice, can alleviate despair and suicidal feelings.
• do: Don't despair, Your Choice Media has a solution to your needs.
• feel: Can he look up at its colossal evil without once feeling despair?

Preposition: at

• lack: Do you despair at the lack of true indie labels in the UK at the moment?
• thought: Eric, and his wife Anne, became quite despairing at the thought of this.

Preposition: into

hope: I had seen and talked with people who make everything from nothing and turn despair into hope.

Adjective modifier

• utter: In fact they were experiencing a complete range of unseen emotions from hysteria, through delight to utter despair.
• don't: Well, don't despair, help is at hand and we're not talking about microwave meals.
• hopeless: This left them in a state of hopeless despair in which they desired to know of Peter what they should do.
• deep: Alan: Can I offer you my deep, deep despair, on this very bad day.
• absolute: Alvaro then sees that it is Leonora and, in absolute despair, throws himself off a nearby cliff.
• quiet: In fact I now look at them in quiet despair.

Modifies a noun

• squid: Discovering this was caused by the ink of a despair squid, they return to Starbug.
• poster: Guaranteed to blow the wind out of your sails, Despair Posters are ideal for bitter and twisted cynics everywhere... .

Modifying Another Word

almost: But all his endeavors were in vain, and he at length almost despaired of finding her again.

Noun used with modifier

I: Now, when I look around and listen to humanity driven news, I despair, I really do.