Similar words: slough off, despond, despondent, despondency, despondence, despondently, slough, sloughing. Meaning: n. (formal) extreme depression.
1. He was sinking into the Slough of Despond.
2. He saved her from the slough of despond.
3. The picture are memorable: Vanity Fair the Slough of Despond , Giant Despair the Delectable Mountain.
4. At that time the country was in 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. We must do something to save him from the slough of Despond.
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