despair

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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to despair

Third person singular
despairs

Simple past
despaired

Past participle
despaired

Present participle
despairing

to despair (third-person singular simple present despairs, present participle despairing, simple past and past participle despaired)

  1. (transitive) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of (obsolete).
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to despair.
  3. (intransitive, often with “of”) To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.

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to despair of
to cause to despair
to be hopeless

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Singular
despair

Plural
uncountable

despair (uncountable)

  1. Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
    He turned around in despair, aware that he was not going to survive
  2. That which is despaired of.

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despair

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