Definition of "dejects" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deject. (verb)

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• "Nothing dejects an old building more than missed stop signs and nothing swings relationships harder than smashed favorites."
• "Hierom notes, this common applause is a most violent thing, laudum placenta, a drum, fife, and trumpet cannot so animate; that fattens men, erects and dejects them in an instant."
• "'Tis very good to wash his hands and face often, to shift his clothes, to have fair linen about him, to be decently and comely attired, for sordes vitiant, nastiness defiles and dejects any man that is so voluntarily, or compelled by want, it dulleth the spirits."