deject
    v 1: lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news
         depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health
         demoralizes her" [syn: depress, deject, cast down,
         get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize,
         demoralise] [ant: elate, intoxicate, lift up, pick
         up, uplift]

Deject \De*ject"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dejected; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Dejecting.] [L. dejectus, p. p. of dejicere to throw
   down; de- + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.]
   1. To cast down. [Obs. or Archaic]
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            Christ dejected himself even unto the hells.
                                                  --Udall.
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            Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming
            civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a
            modest look.                          --Fuller.
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   2. To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage;
      to dishearten.
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            Nor think, to die dejects my lofty mind. --Pope.
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Deject \De*ject"\, a. [L. dejectus, p. p.]
   Dejected. [Obs.]
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