DESPOND

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Lose confidence or hope; become dejected

Example:

The supporters of the Presidential candidate desponded when they learned the early results of the election

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "despond" is one way to...):

despair (abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

despondence; despondency (feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless)

despondent (without or almost without hope)