deject Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
    depress; dispirit; dismay; demoralise; get down; cast down; demoralize.
    • These news depressed her
    • The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her

WordNet

De*ject" transitive verb
Etymology
L. dejectus, p. p. of dejicere to throw down; de- + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Dejected; present participle & verbal noun Dejecting
Definitions
  1. To cast down. Obs. or Archaic
    Christ dejected himself even unto the hells. Udall.
    Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look. Fuller.
  2. To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten.
    Nor think, to die dejects my lofty mind. Pope.
De*ject" adjective
Etymology
L. dejectus, p. p.
Definitions
  1. Dejected. Obs.

Webster 1913