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compared and despaired

compared and despaired is the simple past and past participle of compare and despair.

Meaning of compare and despair

Verb

compare and despair (third-person singular simple present compares and despairs, present participle comparing and despairing, simple past and past participle compared and despaired)

  1. To distress oneself by comparing one's own situation with that of others who seem more successful.
    • We are now on a path, a pilgrimage, a journey, an adventure, and we must now begin to pay more attention. Look at the signs guiding you, look at those who ambush you, even the weather of your own moods defines whether you succeed or not. One of the other damaging evils we do to ourselves is compare...2011, C. Stephen Foster, Awakening the Actor Within

Questions about compared and despaired

What is compared and despaired the simple past and past participle of?
Compared and despaired is the simple past and past participle of compare and despair.

Words near compared and despaired in the dictionary

  1. compare apples with apples
  2. compare notes
  3. compareable
  4. compared
  5. compared and contrasted
  6. compared and despaired
  7. compared apples to apples
  8. compared apples with apples
  9. compared notes
  10. compared with
  11. comparee

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