From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] Make sad or dispirited .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1743 | author= [Robert Drury (sailor)] | title=The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar | url=https://archive.org/details/pleasantandsurp00drurgoog | page=73 | location=London
|passage=[...] the Thoughts of my Friends, and native Country, and the
Improbability of ever seeing them again, made me very melancholy; and DEJECTED
me to that Degree, that sometimes I could not forbear indulging my Grief in
private, and bursting out into a Flood of Tears.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1933 | author=Arthur Melville Jordan | title=Educational Psychology | pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00764755&id=U6cQm3IcVHcC&q=%22there+is+nothing+which+dejects+school+children+quite+so+%22&dq=%22there+is+nothing+which+dejects+school+children+quite+so+%22&pgis=1 | page=60
|passage=On the other hand, there is nothing which DEJECTS school children
quite so much as failure.}}
1. [en] To cast downward .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1642 | author=w:Thomas Fuller | title= [The Holy State and the Profane State] | location=Cambridge | publisher=John Williams | section=Book 5, Chapter 1, p. 358 | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A40674.0001.001
|passage=[...] sometimes she DEJECTS her eyes in a seeming civility; and many
mistake in her a cunning for a modest look.}}
1. * [en]
2. * [en]
3. To debase or humble .
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. * [en]
7. * [en]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[make sad or dispirited]
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- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Welsh: [cy]
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*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. One who is lowly or abject .
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. [en] A waste product .
7. * [en]
8. * [en]
9. * [en]
**** Derived terms
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