dejecting

Verb

deject (third-person singular simple present dejects, present participle dejecting, simple past and past participle dejected)

1. (transitive) Make sad or dispirited.
   • […] 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.1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, page 73

   Synonyms:

   depress, get down, aggrieve, attrist, begloom, begrieve, besorrow, grieve, pain, bring down

2. (obsolete, transitive) To cast downward.
   • […] sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look.1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge: John Williams, Book 5, Chapter 1, p. 358

   Synonyms:

   downcast, throw down

3. To debase or humble.
   • ... 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...1853, John Bradford, Aubrey Townsend, The Writings of John Bradford, M.A., page 67

   Synonyms:

   abase, humiliate, put someone in their place

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