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dispirit

/dih-spir-it/US // dɪˈspɪr ɪt //UK // (dɪˈspɪrɪt) //

精神,魂魄,魂飞魄散,消极

Related Words

deject颓废,沮丧,颓丧,颓废的discourage劝阻,劝告,阻止,劝说dishearten沮丧,沮丧的,厌烦,沮丧的人demoralize受挫,受挫折,受挫折感,动摇sadden悲痛,悲哀,忧伤,悲痛欲绝crush粉碎,碾压,压碎,破碎dampen沾湿,沾沾自喜,沾湿了,润湿

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to deprive of spirit, hope, enthusiasm, etc.; depress; discourage; dishearten.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbdepress
Forms: dispirited, dispiriting
Synonyms
deject颓废,沮丧,颓丧,颓废的demoralize受挫,受挫折,受挫折感,动摇discourage劝阻,劝告,阻止,劝说dishearten沮丧,沮丧的,厌烦,沮丧的人sadden悲痛,悲哀,忧伤,悲痛欲绝crush粉碎,碾压,压碎,破碎dampen沾湿,沾沾自喜,沾湿了,润湿

Examples

  • Even by the mid-1980s, activists and historians, dispirited by a lack of parliamentary political victories, had begun to compare West Germany’s liberation movement unfavorably with that in the United States.

  • He cannot hope to defeat Tesse, but he may wear out and dispirit his men by constant attacks.

  • William, like a wise general as he was, took care that the news of his accident should not dispirit his men.

  • Like most energetic women, a first failure did not daunt or dispirit her, it only roused her energies the more vigorously.

  • Fitzosborne urged the duke not to allow such events to depress or dispirit him.

  • Everything to dispirit; but my invalids are really on the mend.

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