Antonym: encourage, inspire. Similar words: despondent, despondence, despondency, despondently, respond, correspond, respondent, correspond to. Meaning: [dɪ'spɒnd] 
v. lose confidence or hope; become dejected.
v. lose confidence or hope; become dejected. 
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1, Though he had failed, he did not despond.
2, He was sinking into the Slough of Despond.
3, The name of the slough was Despond.
4, He saved her from the slough of despond.
5, Many commentators now believed that Kasparov was finished, that psychologically he could not recover from such a slough of despond.
6, In fact,[http://sentencedict.com/despond.html] they ask this to know how your despond to a difficult question.
7, The picture are memorable: Vanity Fair the Slough of Despond , Giant Despair the Delectable Mountain.
8, She could have been trying to encourage a patient who threatened to despond.
9, Since we don't want to be very rich, we will not feel despond because poor.
10, At that time the country was in the slough of despond.
11, We must do something to save him from the slough of Despond.
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