lose heart

English

Verb

to lose heart (third-person singular simple present loses heart, present participle losing heart, simple past and past participle lost heart)

1. To despair; to experience reduced morale.
   • 2008, Sue Grafton, J is for Judgment^[1], page 159:

     There's nothing so humbling as being a dunce in a foreign tongue, and if it weren't for her compassion, we'd have lost heart after two weeks.

Translations

to despair

• Hungarian: elkedvetlenedik (hu), elcsügged (hu)

• Maori: takarure (mi)

Anagrams

• trehalose