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disheart

disheart is the obsolete form of dishearten.

Meaning of dishearten

Verb

dishearten (third-person singular simple present disheartens, present participle disheartening, simple past and past participle disheartened)

  1. (transitive) To discourage someone by removing their enthusiasm or courage.
    • The repeated failures began to dishearten the team.
    Synonyms:
    discourage
    Antonyms:
    hearten, encourage

Forms of disheart

third-person singular presentdishearts
present participledishearting
past participledishearted
pastdishearted

Origin of disheart

From dis- + heart.

Questions about disheart

What is disheart the obsolete form of?
Disheart is the obsolete form of dishearten.

Words near disheart in the dictionary

  1. dishdasha
  2. dishdashas
  3. dishdashes
  4. dishdashi
  5. dishdashis
  6. disheart
  7. dishearted
  8. dishearten
  9. disheartened
  10. disheartenedly
  11. disheartener

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disheart (page history and authors); dishearten (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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