Despair: alternatives and connections

Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…

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Trial, as a test or experiment.

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To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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of Feel

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State; condition; position of affairs.

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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…

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The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection.

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Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.

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To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to…

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The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is ordered for or tends to the worst, or that the world is wholly evil; -- opposed to optimism.

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The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission.

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To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy…

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Without hope; given to despair; hopeless.

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Without hope; given to despair; hopeless.

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The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.

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The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.

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The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.

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A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

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A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

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