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   de·ject

   /dəˈjekt/

   verb

   • 1. make sad or dispirited; depress: archaic "nothing dejects a trader like the interruption of his profits"

   Word Origin late Middle English (also in the sense ‘overthrow, abase, degrade’): from Latin deject- ‘thrown down’, from the verb deicere, from de- ‘down’ + jacere ‘to throw’.

   Scrabble Points: 16

   • D

     2

   • E

     1

   • J

     8

   • E

     1

   • C

     3

   • T

     1

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