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单词 dispirit
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dispiritv.

/dɪˈspɪrɪt/
Forms: Formerly also disspirit.
Etymology: dis- prefix 2b(a).
To deprive of spirit.
1. transitive. To deprive of essential quality, vigour, or force; to weaken to deprive of animation; to deprive (liquor) of its spirit, to render flat. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > cause to be ill [verb (transitive)] > make weak
fellOE
wastec1230
faintc1386
endull1395
resolvea1398
afaintc1400
defeat?c1400
dissolvec1400
weakc1400
craze1476
feeblish1477
debilite1483
overfeeble1495
plucka1529
to bring low1530
debilitate1541
acraze1549
decaya1554
infirma1555
weaken1569
effeeble1571
enervate1572
enfeeble1576
slay1578
to pull downa1586
prosternate1593
shake1594
to lay along1598
unsinew1598
languefy1607
enerve1613
pulla1616
dispirit1647
imbecilitate1647
unstring1700
to run down1733
sap1755
reduce1767
prostrate1780
shatter1785
undermine1812
imbecile1829
disinvigorate1844
devitalize1849
wreck1850
atrophy1865
crumple1892
the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > make less violent or severe [verb (transitive)] > cause to lose vitality or vigour
languisha1464
castrate1554
damp1564
dead1586
flag1602
wooden1641
dispirit1647
deaden1684
disvigorate1694
devitalize1849
narcotize1852
wilt1855
woodenize1877
abirritate1882
1647 T. May Hist. Parl. i. vii. 73 They woulde vaporate and dis-spirit the power and vigour of Religion.
1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 139 The fruit, by the loss of the natural seed, would be very much dispirited.
1685 R. Boyle Exper. Disc. Salubr. Air 40 in Ess. Effects Motion If the Bottles were not kept well-stopt, they [corpuscles] would in a short time vanish, and leave the Liquor dispirited.
1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 37 He that has dispirited himself by a Debauch.
1713 Countess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 9 Trail all your pikes, dispirit every drum, Ye silent, ye dejected Men of War.
2. To lower the spirits of; to make despondent, discourage, dishearten, depress.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > make dejected [verb (transitive)]
drearya1300
discomfortc1325
batec1380
to cast downa1382
to throw downa1382
dullc1386
faintc1386
discomfita1425
discourage1436
sinkc1440
mischeera1450
discheerc1454
amatea1500
bedowa1522
damp1548
quail1548
dash1550
exanimate1552
afflict1561
dank1565
disanimate1565
sadden1565
languish1566
deject1581
dumpc1585
unheart1593
mope1596
chill1597
sour1600
disgallant1601
disheart1603
dishearten1606
fainten1620
depress1624
sullen1628
tristitiate1628
disliven1631
dampen1633
weigh1640
out-spirit1643
dispirit1647
flat1649
funeralize1654
hearta1658
disencourage1659
attrist1680
flatten1683
dismalizec1735
blue-devil1812
out-heart1845
downweigh1851
to get down1861
frigidize1868
languor1891
downcast1914
neg1987
1647 [implied in: J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (1 Thess. v. 14) The dispirited, faint~hearted, sick and sinking. (at dispirited adj. 2)].
1732 Gay in Swift's Lett. (1766) II. 151 I find myself dispirited, for want of having some pursuit.
1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. v. 382 A blow so fatal and unexpected dispirited the party.
1817 Combe's Devil upon Two Sticks (ed. 5) VI. xxvi. 292 To dispirit the sufferer from future exertions.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. viii. 260 One side was cheered and the other dispirited by an unlooked-for incident.
3. To extract and transfuse the ‘spirit’ or essence of. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > inform or give a thing its essence [verb (transitive)] > deprive of essence or quintessence
quintessence1584
quintessentiate1606
dispirit1642
unsoul1652
eviscerate1664
spirit1677
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xviii. 200 Proportion an houres meditation to an houres reading of a staple Authour. This makes a man master of his learning, and dispirits the book into the Scholar.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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