| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | de·ject |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  d -j kt |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: de·ject·ed, de·ject·ing, de·jects
To lower the spirits of; dishearten. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English dejecten, from Latin d icere, diect-, to cast down : d-, de- + iacere, to throw; see y- in Appendix I.
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