deject
pronunciation
How to pronounce deject in British English:
UK [dɪ'dʒekt]
How to pronounce deject in American English:
US [dɪ'dʒekt]
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- Verb:
- lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
Word Origin
- deject (v.)
- early 15c., "to throw or cast down," from Old French dejeter (12c.), from Latin deiectus "a throwing down, felling, fall," past participle of deicere "to cast down, destroy; drive out; kill, slay, defeat," from de- "down" + -icere, comb. form of iacere "to throw" (see jet (v.)). Originally literal; the sense of "depress in spirit" is c. 1500.
Example
- 1. Objective : to observe the clinical therapeutic effect on hyperlipemia of yin deficiency and blood stasis treated with reduce blood fat and deject capsule .
- 2. But because its oneself overcomes with difficulty conservative nature , therefore cannot along with society 's development , the time progress develop progresses , cannot finally surmount the china and the west culture the gap , cannot become put up deject traditional and modern frame bridge .