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English
Verb
lose heart (third-person singular simple present loses heart, present participle losing heart, simple past and past participle lost heart)
- To despair; to experience reduced morale.
2008, Sue Grafton, J is for Judgment, page 159:There's nothing so humbling as being a dunce in a foreign tongue, and if it weren't for her compassion, we'd have lost heart after two weeks.
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Translations
to despair
- Arabic: يَئِسَ (yaʔisa), أُحْبِطَ (ʔuḥbiṭa)
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- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 灰心 (zh) (huīxīn)
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- Finnish: tulla epätoivoiseksi, vaipua epätoivoon
- French: désespérer (fr), se décourager
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- German: den Mut verlieren
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἀθυμέω (athuméō), ἐκκακέω (ekkakéō)
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- Hungarian: elkedvetlenedik (hu), elcsügged (hu), elbátortalanodik (hu), elszontyolodik (hu)
- Italian: accasciarsi, disperarsi (it), abbattersi (it), scoraggiarsi, sfiduciarsi
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- Khmer: អស់កម្លាំងចិត្ដ (ɑh kɑmlang cət)
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- Maori: takarure, tārure
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- Romanian: se descuraja
- Russian: па́дать ду́хом (ru) impf (pádatʹ dúxom), упа́сть ду́хом pf (upástʹ dúxom), отча́иваться (ru) impf (otčáivatʹsja), отча́яться (ru) pf (otčájatʹsja), опуска́ть ру́ки (ru) impf (opuskátʹ rúki), опусти́ть ру́ки (ru) pf (opustítʹ rúki)
- Spanish: desesperarse (es), desanimarse (es)
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- Welsh: digalonni (cy)
- Yiddish: אַראָפּפֿאַלן בײַ זיך (aropfaln bay zikh)
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