Sekirov Dictionary

deject

/dɪˈdʒɛkt/

verb 3
noun 2
forms 4

verb3

•
Make sad or dispirited.
- On the other hand, there is nothing which dejects school children quite so much as failure. — 1933
•
To debase or humble.
- I adore thee, O divine and amiable hand! that comfortest me by chastising me, that strengthenest me by afflicting me, that elevatest me by dejecting me, and that givest me life by mortifying me. — 1863
•
(no longer used) To cast downward.
- […] sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look. — 1642

noun2

•
One who is lowly or abject.
- Lovers, lovers, football brothers; rejects, dejects, clowns and crakaz: boot him one, in the nakaz! — 1994
[usually plural] A waste product.

forms

dejected · dejecting · dejecteth · dejects

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