English
Verb
lose heart (third-person singular simple present loses heart, present participle losing heart, simple past and past participle lost heart)
- 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.
Antonyms
Translations
to despair
- Arabic: يَئِسَ (yaʔisa), أُحْبِطَ (ʔuḥbiṭa)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 灰心 (zh) (huīxīn)
- Finnish: tulla epätoivoiseksi, vaipua epätoivoon
- French: désespérer (fr), se décourager
- German: den Mut verlieren
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἀθυμέω (athuméō), ἐκκακέω (ekkakéō)
- Hungarian: elkedvetlenedik (hu), elcsügged (hu)
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- Italian: accasciarsi, disperarsi (it), abbattersi (it), scoraggiarsi, sfiduciarsi
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- Maori: takarure, tārure
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- Russian: па́дать ду́хом impf (pádatʹ dúxom), упа́сть ду́хом pf (upástʹ dúxom), отча́иваться (ru) impf (otčáivatʹsja), отча́яться (ru) pf (otčájatʹsja), опуска́ть ру́ки pf (opuskátʹ rúki)
- Spanish: desesperarse (es), desanimarse (es)
- Yiddish: אַראָפּפֿאַלן בײַ זיך (aropfaln bay zikh)
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