Crossword clues for dispirit
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dispirit \Dis*pir"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dispirited; p. pr. & vb. n. Dispiriting.] [Pref. dis- + spirit.]
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To deprive of cheerful spirits; to depress the spirits of; to dishearten; to discourage.
Not dispirited with my afflictions.
--Dryden.He has dispirited himself by a debauch.
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To distill or infuse the spirit of. [Obs. or R.]
This makes a man master of his learning, and dispirits the book into the scholar.
--Fuller.Syn: To dishearten; discourage; deject; damp; depress; cast down; intimidate; daunt; cow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. Lower the morale of; make despondent; dishearten.
WordNet
v. 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, demoralize, demoralise] [ant: elate]
Wikipedia
Dispirit is an American black metal band from Oakland, California.
Usage examples of "dispirit".
If there were no hives in the vicinity, these bees soon became confused and dispirited.
When they saw the caved-in Berliner Dom in the distance, they were too dispirited to go on and decided to stroll up the Linden instead, the old Sunday outing.
Cassy looked down on Legree, as, weary and dispirited, he alighted from his horse.
At Nankin the weary and dispirited survivors realized that Japan was now also at war with the United States and that Osaka and Nagoya were in the hands of Communist Committees.
When Absalom finally rejoined his family, he was exhausted, dispirited, and prepared to take an extended home leave.
CHAPTER TWO alethea inspected her wardrobe in a dispirited fashion, only too conscious of the fact that on the previous evening she had been wild with excitement at the idea of dining with Nick.
The whole neighborhood seemed dispirited, from the patchy lawns to the cracked concrete driveways where every second house had a car up on blocks.
To the Polliwogs, the knowledge they had lost their ship had been as dispiriting as the seeming certainty of their impending doom.
A nice change from the medical ladies, mostly chronic bronchitis, bad hearts and diabetes and, by the very nature of their illnesses, dispirited.
The young soldiers, still bewildered and now very dispirited, retreated down Changan Avenue, finally, in the middle of the morning.
Then, today, while I was trying to clean up a little (mostly I'm too exhausted and dispirited to even try), I broke my mother's favorite plate, the one with the Currier & Ives sledding scene on it.
At this critical moment the coati bravely scampered forward and made a gallant if misguided effort to rally his dispirited troops.
The rest of that division was now marching through the crossroads and past the remnants of the dispirited Belgians.
Even without the disinfectants, it was too dispirited a place for any but the most determined of germs, and nothing around here seemed all that determined.
We were camped at a lofty spot called Indian Grave Gap, between two brooding summits—the one tiring to recollect, the other dispiriting to behold.