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Chapfallen :: Chapfallen (a.) Having the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen..

Drawback :: Drawback (n.) A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature..

Disanimation :: Disanimation (n.) The state of being disanimated or discouraged; depression of spirits.

Dispirit :: Dispirit (v. t.) To deprive of cheerful spirits; to depress the spirits of; to dishearten; to discourage.

Discountenance :: Discountenance (v. t.) To refuse to countenance, or give the support of one's approval to; to give one's influence against; to restrain by cold treatment; to discourage..

Die :: Die (v. i.) To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc..

Chill :: Chill (v. t.) To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.

Discourager :: Discourager (n.) One who discourages.

Revive :: Revive (v. i.) To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension..

Damp :: Damp (n.) To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage..

Appall :: Appall (a.) To depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to overcome with sudden terror or horror; to dismay; as, the sight appalled the stoutest heart..

Appall :: Appall (v. i.) To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.

Persevere :: Persevere (v. i.) To persist in any business or enterprise undertaken; to pursue steadily any project or course begun; to maintain a purpose in spite of counter influences, opposition, or discouragement; not to give or abandon what is undertaken..

Dishearten :: Dishearten (v. t.) To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject.

Discouraging :: Discouraging (a.) Causing or indicating discouragement.

Encourage :: Encourage (v. t.) To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward; -- the opposite of discourage..

Discouragement :: Discouragement (n.) The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection..

Discouragement :: Discouragement (n.) That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement..

Chill :: Chill (n.) A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly..

Despondency :: Despondency (n.) The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.

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