despaired
失望的,感到绝望的,失望,绝望的
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Definitions
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- : loss of hope; hopelessness.
- : someone or something that causes hopelessness: He is the despair of his mother.
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- : to lose, give up, or be without hope: to despair of humanity.
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- : Obsolete. to give up hope of.
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Examples
This disease loves isolation, and we know all about loneliness and despair, and we can’t stay well in recovery if we’re not connecting with people.
In Studio Theatre’s audio-drama production, actor Gina Daniels infuses the slogan with a delectable mixture of snark, exasperation and weariness, seasoned with a grain of despair.
Developing a despair scale may also provide insights into those individuals most likely to succumb to despair-related fatalities.
Psychiatric disorders plausibly related to a sense of despair, such as major depression and anxiety disorders, have been studied for decades.
Many despair that their labor will ever decently shelter their families or protect them against disease.
The only common ground to be found in this despaired summer is that unlike my kids, those in Gaza simply were in the wrong place.
Many of his supporters had despaired that the regime would ever let him out.
All these years later, the carnage continues and many of us have despaired at ever ending it.
Aronson claims "Fayyad has evidently despaired of his failed state-building strategy."
Take the gay and lesbian community: for two years they despaired, imagining Obama had forgotten the support they had given him.
They obeyed, and the third day after brought to us the sufferer, whose life they had despaired of, in a half-dying condition.
But Samuel Adams, who thought "nothing should be despaired of," took upon himself the performance of this arduous task.
He would candidly avow, however, that he despaired of seeing the question brought to a speedy and satisfactory settlement.
We were compelled to abandon the undertaking; and despaired of ever being able to succeed in building any thing of the kind.
From that night, however, I never absolutely despaired, even when things looked their very worst.