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despaired

/dih-spair/US // dɪˈspɛər //UK // (dɪˈspɛə) //

失望的,感到绝望的,失望,绝望的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : loss of hope; hopelessness.
    • : someone or something that causes hopelessness: He is the despair of his mother.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to lose, give up, or be without hope: to despair of humanity.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : 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.