Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted.
1 This did not dishearten or deject the golden party; far from it.
2 Some names stimulate and encourage the owner, others deject and paralyse him.'
3 The things which do not disturb her temper may, perhaps, deject her spirits.
4 Having these to look to, what should stagger our faith, or deject our hope?
5 I must deject you now and make you listen to me; there is not much more to hear.
6 The sight appeared to deject him.
7 I am quite deject and wretched.
8 O let not our venom of sin deject us, while there is the blood of Christ to cleanse us!
9 Some names stimulate and encourage the owner; others deject and paralyze him: I am a melancholy instance of that truth.
10 Shall calamity deject it?
11 Anger and hatred bestow a new force on all our thoughts and actions; while humility and shame deject and discourage us.
12 No longer can the outside of things deceive him, or the defeats of the higher by the lower deject , much less overwhelm him.
13 The streaming of their colours was also terrible and dejecting to behold.
14 He looked pale and dejected as he rode past beneath the window.
15 He remained at home all the next day, worn out and dejected .
16 He was tired out and dejected beyond measure by this tragic encounter.
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