Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To dissociate, as the members of a pair.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To separate (a pair).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
separate (apair ).
Etymologies
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Examples
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This whole ordeal leaves me in dispair for the soul of the character and any shred of faithful treatment to the literature.
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We ended up leaving in dispair of ever getting a turn in the grain mill or on the falling bed.
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The time of darkness and dispair is coming to and end.
McCain slams Obama over Middle East at pro-Israel forum 2008
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They just want to live in dispair and cry about what is wrong with this country,.
Exit polls: Half of Clinton's supporters won't back Obama 2008
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And stayed up til 3am on election night, wallowing in dispair with a handful of other people in the student center)
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If our clergy were set up to respond to "dispair" -- rather than asking, "have you seen your physician?
Philocrites: Baptism is more than signing a membership book. 2008
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After Bush’s tenure, I want the Repugs and the trolls to howl in dispair.
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After Bush’s tenure, I want the Repugs and the trolls to howl in dispair.
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This gave me hope where a flawless poet might have made me dispair … his metrical variety, his fondness for complicated stanza forms, were an invaluable training in the craft of making.
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This gave me hope where a flawless poet might have made me dispair … his metrical variety, his fondness for complicated stanza forms, were an invaluable training in the craft of making.
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