transitive. To make dreary, sadden. (Only Middle English).

transitive. To deprive of courage or strength of mind; to discourage, dishearten, dismay. Also reflexive. Obsolete.

transitive. To lower, let down; figurative to cast down, humble, depress, deject. (With quot. 1834 cf. 6.)

To deject in spirits, disappoint, dispirit. Chiefly in past participle= downcast.

transitive. To overthrow; to bring down in rank or station; to degrade, humiliate; to deject. Now archaic and rare.

To render dull of mood; to make listless, or somewhat gloomy: the opposite of to enliven. Obsolete.

transitive. To make faint or weak, depress, enfeeble, weaken. Rare in modern use. Also impersonal it faints me.

transitive. To frustrate the plans or hopes of, thwart, foil; to throw into perplexity, dejection, or confusion. Now chiefly in weakened sense…

transitive. To deprive of courage or confidence; to dishearten, dispirit, demoralize. Also intransitive.

transitive. To cause (a person, the mind, spirits, etc.) to become dejected or depressed.

transitive. To dishearten.

transitive. To dispirit, dishearten, discourage.

transitive. To dismay, daunt (a person, the heart, the mind, etc.); to quell (a mood, emotion, etc.).

transitive. ? To sadden.

To deaden to restrain the ardour or energy of; to depress, deject, discourage, check. persons, their spirits, zeal, hopes, etc.

transitive. To daunt, depress (the heart, courage, etc.) with fear; to cause dejection; to dispirit. Now chiefly poetic.

To cast down, depress; to daunt, dispirit, discourage.

To deprive of courage or spirit; to dishearten, dispirit. Obsolete.

transitive. To humble (one's soul); to chastise. Obsolete.

figurative. To damp (the spirits or aspirations); to depress. dialect in later use.

transitive. To deprive of vigour, courage, or enthusiasm; to dispirit, dishearten, discourage. Cf. animate, v. I.

(The principal use.) transitive. To cause to feel sorrow; to make unhappy. Also: to give a sad appearance to.

transitive. To cause to languish. Obsolete.

To depress in spirits; to cast down, dispirit, dishearten. (The ordinary current sense.)

transitive. To cast into melancholy, sadden, grieve, cast down. (Sometimes blending with dump, v.1)

transitive. To deprive of heart; to dishearten.

transitive. To make gloomily dejected or melancholy; to cause to mope. Also reflexive and in passive. Now rare.

figurative. To affect as with cold; to check, depress, or lower (warmth, ardour, etc.); to damp, deject, dispirit.

To render sour, gloomy, or morose; to embitter (the mind, temper, etc.).

transitive. To strip or deprive of gallantry or courage; to discourage, dispirit.

= dishearten, v.

transitive. To deprive of ‘heart’ or courage; to discourage, dispirit, make despondent.

transitive. To make faint, depress, dispirit.

To bring into low spirits, cast down mentally, dispirit, deject, sadden. (The chief current use.)

transitive. To make sullen or sluggish.

transitive. To affect with sadness, to sadden.

transitive. To do the opposite of to enliven; to dispirit.

transitive. To dull, deaden, diminish the force or ardour of, depress, deject; = damp, v. 1 3.

Without adverb: To depress, dispirit. Obsolete. rare.

(transitive) to put out of spirits, to dispirit.

To lower the spirits of; to make despondent, discourage, dishearten, depress.

To make dull or spiritless; to make less lively or vivid; to deaden, depress. Obsolete.

transitive. To render sad or melancholy. Obsolete. rare.

In negative sense. Now rare. transitive. regional (chiefly Scottish). To take the heart from (in various senses of the noun); to steal or capture (a…

transitive. To deprive of encouragement; to discourage, v.

To make sad, sadden.

To deprive of energy or ‘fire’; to depress. Also with away. Obsolete.

transitive. To make or render dismal.

transitive. To affect with the blue devils (blue devil, n. 2a); to cause to be depressed or melancholy.

(transitive) to put out of heart, dishearten.

transitive. Chiefly poetic. To weigh down; to depress, as if with a weight.

transitive. To bring (a person) into a state of depression or weariness; to depress, to weary. Cf. down, adv. 17b.

transitive. To depress (a person) by frigidity of manner; to make frigid.

intransitive. = languish, v. (in various senses).

transitive. To bring (a person) into a state of dejection or low spirits.

transitive. With out. To depress, sadden, or discourage (a person).