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/dɪˈdʒɛkt/
Pronunciation notes
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dɪˈdʒɛkt
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Verb
Make sad or dispirited.
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[…] 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.
On the other hand, there is nothing which dejects school children quite so much as failure.
To cast downward.
Usage- Obsolete
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[…] sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look.
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Princely wisdom, then, Dejects his watchful eye; and from the hand Of feeble justice, ineffectual, drop The sword and balance: mute the voice of joy, and hush'd the clamour of the busy world.
supplication, that is, entreatment, can be made more artificial if the speaker dejects both hands.
To debase or humble.
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... as also we might have more feeling and sense of our sweet Saviour Jesus Christ, by the humbling and dejecting of us, thereby to make us, as more desirous of him, so him more sweet and pleasant unto us: the which thing the good Spirit of God work sensibly in all our hearts, for God's holy name's sake.
I adore thee, O divine and amiable hand! that comfortest me by chastising me, that strengthenest me by afflicting me, that elevatest me by dejecting me, and that givest me life by mortifying me.
As a person sitting over the counter in a bank, represents the bank by virtue of his assignment, projects or dejects the image of the bank as a whole; the policeman on duty at the police station also represents the Police Force as a whole and projects or dejects the image of the Police with the public.
Though she dejects the consideration, passionate spells Drawn from her bible kept him alive As well as kept their ungrateful brats lucky.
Noun
One who is lowly or abject.
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Lovers, lovers, football brothers; rejects, dejects, clowns and crakaz: boot him one, in the nakaz!
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Not at all short of but always with and through perception and words, the sublime is a something added that expands us, overstrains us, and causes us to be both here, as dejects, and there, as others and sparkling.
All are dejects, and all are drawn to the very places and things that threaten their own destruction.
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On the other side of this double refusal, he is a deject—a ghostly placeholder of the abject; the stray anti-locus of the negative.
A waste product.
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... the bacteriological examination of the dejects of all persons presenting choleraic symptoms and of all persons who have been exposed to infection and who have loose and frequent discharges from the bowels; the disinfection of the dejects of such persons and of all articles which may possibly be contaiminated by the same; […]
Along the 90 kilometers of the Tiete river in the greater São Paulo region, it receives a huge amount of dejects, both industrial and human (the latter, dejects collected by sewer systems, dumped untreated or with inadequate treatment in the river).
The region is characterized by an intense intervention of anthropogenic activities, existence of more than 1.700 oil wells, dutes, storage and transport structures of gas and oil, ponds for stabilization and treatment of dejects, pumping and collecting stations besides a marine salt industry and wide areas with activities of shrimp farms.
Verb
lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
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These news depressed her
The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her