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verb-intransitive. To become disheartened or discouraged.

n. Despondency: "The outward show of fight masked a spreading inner despond at the White House” ( Newsweek).

v. To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to become dejected, lose heart.

n. Despondency.

verb-intransitive. To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view.

n. Despondency.

To lose heart, resolution, or hope; be cast down; be depressed or dejected in mind.

Synonyms Despair, Despond. Despair implies a total loss of hope; despond does not. Despondency produces a disposition to relax or relinquish effort; despair generally stops all effort. See despair, n.

n. Despondency.

v. lose confidence or hope; become dejected

"With all its beauty and comfort it would become to him almost inevitably a slough, both of "despond" and of dissipation -- dissipation of the worst and most hopeless kind, wherein the victim's ruling motive is to get rid of self."

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