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Definition of dispirit in English: dispiritverb dɪˈspɪrɪtdəˈspɪrɪt [with object]Cause (someone) to lose enthusiasm or hope. 使气馁；使灰心 the army was dispirited by the uncomfortable winter conditions 军队因为冬季环境不适而士气不振。 Example sentencesExamples - He came to Devizes in 1989 to take over a rather dispirited congregation, which had suffered from constant changes in clergy over a short period.
- Most of the children are dispirited because of some adolescent problem.
- I even invited her to the mall, and I was dispirited when she turned me down.
- Keeping vibrations of hope on the pulse through dispiriting times was part of the task she set herself.
- The ragged and dispirited Americans made camp at Valley Forge.
- Thirdly, why we should perhaps not be too dispirited and demoralised about public life.
- Finn and Larkins started to walk away from the bench that seated the 3 dispirited boys, all of whom were sighing with misery and woe.
- I hate to dispirit my readers like that, but that's just the way things go sometimes.
- In doing so it will hopefully help puncture the ideological claims that have done much to demoralise workers and dispirit potential students of work and employment relations.
- The talk was that the Irish would lose by a ton but Gatland's previously dispirited team conceded a late try and went down 18-16.
- A year ago the National caucus was dispirited and dejected.
- I just understand that if you are constantly behind, it dispirits people.
- Anyway, I was quite dispirited at only receiving four calls in total from this ad.
- Like McCain, I'm not dispirited by the notion that Congress will have to revisit the issue every few years.
- But Pietro is too lost in his own daydreams and dispirited behavior to pay attention to his studies.
- Famine and disease had ravished and dispirited the people and emigration had drained the land of most of its youth.
- You can dispirit the Iraqi people by sending mixed messages.
- He is understandably dispirited by the accession of the new pontiff, but expresses his concerns in language that seems to me overwrought and misplaced.
- I guess this is the price Zambia has to pay for failing to beat Ghana in Lusaka but having to win in Ghana should inspire rather than dispirit the players.
- As Argentina's presidential election approaches, many dispirited voters are planning on turning in blank ballots or not voting at all.
Synonyms dishearten, discourage, demoralize, cast down, make dejected, make downhearted, depress, dismay, disappoint, daunt, deter, unman, unnerve, crush, sap, shake, throw, cow, subdue, undermine dampen someone's spirits, bring low informal knock sideways, knock the stuffing out of, knock for six, give someone the blues archaic deject disheartened, discouraged, demoralized, cast down, downcast, low, low-spirited, dejected, downhearted, depressed, disconsolate crushed, shattered, sapped, shaken, thrown, cowed, subdued informal blue, fed up British informal brassed off, cheesed off disheartening, depressing, discouraging, disappointing, daunting, disenchanting, demoralizing unfavourable, inauspicious, off-putting, pessimistic, hopeless, grim, dismal, gloomy, sombre, cheerless, black informal morbid archaic dejecting
Definition of dispirit in US English: dispiritverbdəˈspiritdəˈspɪrɪt [with object]Cause (someone) to lose enthusiasm or hope. 使气馁；使灰心 the army was dispirited by the uncomfortable winter conditions 军队因为冬季环境不适而士气不振。 Example sentencesExamples - I just understand that if you are constantly behind, it dispirits people.
- A year ago the National caucus was dispirited and dejected.
- Like McCain, I'm not dispirited by the notion that Congress will have to revisit the issue every few years.
- You can dispirit the Iraqi people by sending mixed messages.
- In doing so it will hopefully help puncture the ideological claims that have done much to demoralise workers and dispirit potential students of work and employment relations.
- As Argentina's presidential election approaches, many dispirited voters are planning on turning in blank ballots or not voting at all.
- I guess this is the price Zambia has to pay for failing to beat Ghana in Lusaka but having to win in Ghana should inspire rather than dispirit the players.
- Famine and disease had ravished and dispirited the people and emigration had drained the land of most of its youth.
- He is understandably dispirited by the accession of the new pontiff, but expresses his concerns in language that seems to me overwrought and misplaced.
- But Pietro is too lost in his own daydreams and dispirited behavior to pay attention to his studies.
- Keeping vibrations of hope on the pulse through dispiriting times was part of the task she set herself.
- Anyway, I was quite dispirited at only receiving four calls in total from this ad.
- Thirdly, why we should perhaps not be too dispirited and demoralised about public life.
- Most of the children are dispirited because of some adolescent problem.
- I even invited her to the mall, and I was dispirited when she turned me down.
- Finn and Larkins started to walk away from the bench that seated the 3 dispirited boys, all of whom were sighing with misery and woe.
- The talk was that the Irish would lose by a ton but Gatland's previously dispirited team conceded a late try and went down 18-16.
- He came to Devizes in 1989 to take over a rather dispirited congregation, which had suffered from constant changes in clergy over a short period.
- The ragged and dispirited Americans made camp at Valley Forge.
- I hate to dispirit my readers like that, but that's just the way things go sometimes.
Synonyms dishearten, discourage, demoralize, cast down, make dejected, make downhearted, depress, dismay, disappoint, daunt, deter, unman, unnerve, crush, sap, shake, throw, cow, subdue, undermine disheartened, discouraged, demoralized, cast down, downcast, low, low-spirited, dejected, downhearted, depressed, disconsolate disheartening, depressing, discouraging, disappointing, daunting, disenchanting, demoralizing
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