Despond is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DESPOND in dictionary:

VERB:
• to lose heart
• become dejected and lose confidence
• lose heart or hope
• To give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view.
• lose confidence or hope; become dejected
NOUN:
• a state of unhappiness and low spirits.
• Despondency.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to lose spirit or hope

Words related to DESPOND

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Words that contain DESPOND

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How to use DESPOND in a sentence

• Take away its banks and it spreads all over creation and becomes a stagnant slough of despond.
• As hour after hour passed, and the hogs showed no disposition to depart, Hal began to despond, declaring that no help would reach them before they should starve.
• It had raised Amy out of the slough of despond into which she had unwittingly strayed, or been thrust.
• When she lapsed listlessly into the slough of silence and despond, he went on precisely as though unconscious of a change.
• Fortunately he was in the prime of life, fond of adventure, and not of a temper to despond.
• If Hinpoha had been wandering in the Desert of Waiting for the past few months, Migwan was sunk deep in the Slough of Despond.
• He listened in a cold black fury, but fell soon into a slough of despond.
• His expectations in this respect, as well as his earnest efforts, received so little encouragement that he began, finally, to despond.
• If ever we should be tempted to despond about the possibilities of human nature and human life, we shall think of him and take courage.
• It was only due to those real friends that I was saved from slipping into a slough of despond from which I might never have hoped to rise.
• He lay roaring at the Slough of Despond for above a month together.
• The Valley of Humiliation, the Slough of Despond, Giant Despair, Doubting Castle are all pictures of human life taken with photographic accuracy.
• Nothing but rain, pouring rain, for the next few days, washing the walls of snow down the unmetaled streets, a very slough of despond to all beasts of burden.
• But, whether these cases be few or many, let no one despond.
• Thereupon, Dick Tresilyan slid into a slough of despond, in which he had been wallowing ever since.
• What hope would there be for us when we came to encounter the millions of Mars itself on their own ground and prepared for war? However, it would not do to despond.
• For I found that thou hadst little experience in conflict with Apollyon, and that thou hadst never passed through the Slough of Despond nor wandered in the Valley of the Shadow.
• You think too much of the past, and despond too much in the present.
• Only here at Sandy was there suspense as well as deep despond.
• I think if that could be done he would come out of the slough of despond and be worth something.
• They presume or despond from quite different motives.
• I have been in a Slough of Despond for some days past, having written so fiercely that I came to a stand-still.
• Quicker echoes of the earlier despond still flit here and there, with gleams of joyous light.
• First is the stalking figure of earliest movement, from the moment of despond.
• As for the fruits, I am sure they will be good, for though I sometimes despond as regards myself, I do not as regards you.
• You cannot imagine the slough of despond I had to pass through.
• Do not let us despond, but wait at Rueil, for my conviction is that they are at Rueil.
• Yet the soul would not despond, for there are several things that may serve to support and bear up the heart even in that case, as, 1.
• It is, perhaps, significant that the arrows which are shot at death despond in numbers with those which are used at the time of the birth ceremony.
• Very slowly, very painfully, he had struggled out of his Slough of Despond, and what that struggle had meant to him none but himself would ever know.
• The reason why we mourn and despond over them is, again, that we limit our hope to the single life.
• Wherefore Christian was left to tumble in the Slough of Despond alone.
• Thou hast met with some danger already, for I see the mud of the Slough of Despond is upon thee.
• If he could look upon his homestead with our eyes, I feel sure he would cease to despond.
• The interior suffered equally with the coast, and men at length began to despond under so alarming a visitation.

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