Crossword-Solution: DESPOND
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Despond | v. i. | 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. |
| Despond | n. | Despondency. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “DESPOND”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Become disheartened. | 1 answer |
| Bunyan's Slough of ___. | 1 answer |
| Feel extreme discouragement | 1 answer |
| In the Slough of ___ (depressed) | 1 answer |
| Slough of ___ | 1 answer |
| The slough of ___. | 1 answer |
| discouragement | 2 answers |
| Lose heart | 4 answers |
| Mope | 15 answers |
| Deject | 31 answers |
| Droop | 33 answers |
| Brood | 41 answers |
| Give ___ up | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DESPOND (5)
They serve for a time, and they make life worth living, In spite of life's troubles--'tis vain to despond; Oh, man! WE at least, WE enjoy, with thanksgiving, God's gifts on this earth, though we look not beyond.
Still, he was not the man to despond, however desperate his plight might appear, without an attempt to better his situation.
But while I was discovering this one last tie to bind me to life, in my extremity, in the depths of despond, walking in the valley of the shadow, my ears were deaf to John Barleycorn.
And of the great debt of gratitude we all owe to "the wicked tinker of Elstow" Dean Stanley has spoken so truly that I am fain to quote his words: "We all need to be cheered by the help of Greatheart and Standfast and Valiant-for-the-Truth, and good old Honesty! Some of us have been in Doubting Castle, some in the Slough of Despond.
Smooth-it-away, “is the famous Slough of Despond—a disgrace to all the neighborhood; and the greater that it might so easily be converted into firm ground.” “I have understood,” said I, “that efforts have been made for that purpose from time immemorial.
Quotes with DESPOND (3)
At such moments the collapse of their courage, willpower, and endurance was so abrupt that they felt they could never drag themselves out of the pit of despond into which they had fallen. Therefore they forced themselves never to think about the problematic day of escape, to cease looking to the future, and always to keep, so to speak, their eyes fixed on the ground at their feet. But, naturally enough, this prudence, this habit of feinting with their predicament and refusing…
…for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown
But if I feel, may I never express?” “Never!” declared Reason. I groaned under her bitter sternness. Never - never - oh, hard word! This hag, this Reason, would not let me look up, or smile, or hope; she could not rest unless I were altogether crushed, cowed, broken-in, and broken down. According to her, I was born only to work for a piece of bread, to await the pains of death, and steadily through all life to despond. Reason might be right; yet no wonder we are glad at times…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1958–2006).