transitive. To despair of; to distrust. Also intransitive: to despair; to be distrustful.

intransitive. To have no confidence; to be in despair.

intransitive. To lose or give up hope; to be without hope. Const. of (with indirect passive to be despaired of); rarely †in (obsolete), to with infin…

intransitive (impersonal with dative of person). thee wantroke: you despair of. Cf. wantroking, n.

By-form of despair, v.

intransitive. To despair, lack hope.

In despair, despairing, desperate. to be despaired, to be desperate or in despair, to be without hope, to despair. (Frequent 14–16th centuries.) Obs…

to despair.

to put (also set) beside the saddle and variants: to unhorse; (hence) to put ‘out of the running’; to defeat the plans of; to marginalize, thwart…