dejection — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.

   Uso

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   Sinonimi

   despondencydownheartednesscrestfallenness

2. The act of humbling or abasing oneself.

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   Sinonimi

   abasementhumiliationsubmission

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   Adoration implies submission and dejection, so that while we worship we cast down ourselves; there must be therefore some great eminence in the object worshipped, or else we should dishonor our own nature in the worship of it.

3. A low condition; weakness; inability.

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   Sinonimi

   dearthwant

   Esempi

   Meat remaining in the stomach undigested, dejection of appetite, wind coming upwards, are signs of a phlegmatick constitution.

4. Defecation or feces.

   Uso

   • arcaico
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   Sinonimi

   excrementbowel movement

   Esempi

   No dejection since his entrance, nor has he passed urine.

   Altri esempi (2)

   His dejections were frequent, loose, changing in character from hour to hour, made up of undigested food, of mucus and watery fluid, varying in color, mostly green, and never healthy in consistence, color, or odor.

   Chorera infantum may begin as an attack of acute indigestion, or, what is more frequently the case, suddenly, with severe vomiting and copious dejections, high fever and rapid prostration.

Sostantivo

1. a state of melancholy depression

   Termini più generali

   depression

2. solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

   Sinonimi

   fecal matterfaecal matterfecesfaecesBMstoolordure

   Termini più generali

   body wasteexcretionexcretaexcrementexcretory product