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compares and despairs

compares and despairs is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 compares and despairs

What is compares and despairs the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Compares and despairs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of compare and despair.

Words near compares and despairs in the dictionary

  1. comparees
  2. comparer
  3. comparers
  4. compares
  5. compares and contrasts
  6. compares and despairs
  7. compares apples to apples
  8. compares apples with apples
  9. compares notes
  10. comparest
  11. compareth

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