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?

• grow: The growing despair meant many looked to the Nazi National Front for salvation.

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.