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16 total sentences available.
[…] the Thoughts of my Friends, and native Country, and the Improbability of ever seeing them again, made me very melancholy; and dejected me to that Degree, that sometimes I could not forbear indulging my Grief in private, and bursting out into a Flood of Tears.
Source: wiktionary
On the other hand, there is nothing which dejects school children quite so much as failure.
Source: wiktionary
[…] sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look.
Source: wiktionary
Princely wisdom, then, Dejects his watchful eye; and from the hand Of feeble justice, ineffectual, drop The sword and balance: mute the voice of joy, and hush'd the clamour of the busy world.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include demoralize, depress, dispirit, beat down, cast down.
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