Usually means: Make someone feel sad, disheartened.
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  1. deject: Merriam-Webster
  2. deject: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deject: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deject: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deject: Vocabulary.com
  6. deject: Wordnik
  7. deject: Wiktionary
  8. deject: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. deject: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. deject: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Deject, deject: Dictionary.com
  12. deject: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Deject: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. deject: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. deject: Rhymezone
  16. Deject: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. deject: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. deject: FreeDictionary.org
  19. deject: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. deject: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. deject: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (deject)

▸ verb:  (transitive) Make sad or dispirited.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To cast downward.
▸ verb:  To debase or humble.
▸ noun:  One who is lowly or abject.
▸ noun:  (usually in the plural) A waste product.

Similar:
dispirit, dismay, demoralize, depress, cast down, get down, downcast, discourage, dismalize, discomfort, more...

Opposite:
elate, exhilarate, inflame

Types:
sadness, depression, despair, melancholy, disappointment, heartbreak, gloom, anguish, more...

Adjectives:
most, pale, female, lower, mental, septal, least

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     taupe,     pewter,     smoke, more...


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Similar:
dispirit, dismay, demoralize, depress, cast down, get down, downcast, discourage, dismalize, discomfort, more...

Opposite:
elate, exhilarate, inflame

Types:
sadness, depression, despair, melancholy, disappointment, heartbreak, gloom, anguish, more...

Adjectives:
most, pale, female, lower, mental, septal, least

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     taupe,     pewter,     smoke, more...



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