'Deject' definitions:
Definition of 'deject'
(from WordNet)
verb
Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her" [syn: depress, deject, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoralise] [ant: elate, intoxicate, lift up, pick up, uplift]
Definition of 'Deject'
From: GCIDE
- Deject \De*ject"\, a. [L. dejectus, p. p.] Dejected. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Deject'
From: GCIDE
- Deject \De*ject"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dejected; p. pr. & vb. n. Dejecting.] [L. dejectus, p. p. of dejicere to throw down; de- + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.]
- 1. To cast down. [Obs. or Archaic] [1913 Webster]
- Christ dejected himself even unto the hells. --Udall. [1913 Webster]
- Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten. [1913 Webster]
- Nor think, to die dejects my lofty mind. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'deject'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- beat down,
- cast down,
- chill,
- damp,
- dampen,
- dampen the spirits,
- darken,
- dash,
- demoralize,
- depress,
- discourage,
- dishearten,
- disparage,
- dispirit,
- knock down,
- lower,
- lower the spirits,
- oppress,
- press down,
- sadden,
- sink,
- weigh heavy upon,
- weigh upon