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LOSE HEART

Specialty Definition: LOSE HEART

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Literature

Lose Heart (To). To be discouraged or despondent. Heart=courage. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: LOSE HEART

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Dejection

Verb: be dejected; Adjective: grieve; mourn; (lament); take on, give way, lose heart, despond, droop, sink.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: LOSE HEART

English words defined with "LOSE HEART": despairUnheart. (references)

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Modern Usage: LOSE HEART

DomainUsage

Screenplays

All lose heart. (Braveheart; writing credit: Randall Wallace)

I don't want to lose heart! I want to believe as he does! (Braveheart; writing credit: Randall Wallace)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: LOSE HEART

Expression using "LOSE HEART": To lose heart. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: LOSE HEART

Language Translations for "LOSE HEART"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

humbas kurajën. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏يئس (despair, give up, give up the ghost), ‏فشل (balk, be failed, be unable to do, be unsuccessful, come to nothing, cower, defeat, dud, fail, failure, fiasco, fizzle out, flop, frustration, go awry, go wrong, lose courage, lose ground, make a hash of it, miscarry, miss, miss fire, miss the mark, torpedo, trip up, unsuccess, washout). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

отчайвам се (despair, despond), омърлушвам се (be down in the mouth), обезкуражавам се, падам духом (get down). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

灰心 (be discouraged). (various references)

   

Czech

  

ztratit odvahu (lord heart, lose courage), zamilovat se (lose one's heart), poklesnout na mysli (become despondent). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

menettää rohkeutensa. (various references)

   

French

  

perdre courage. (various references)

   

German

  

verzagen (become disheartened, despair, despond, to despond). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χάνω καρδιά (lose one's heart). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"תיאש (despair, give up, give up hope). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elkedvetlenedik, csügged (to quail). (various references)

   

Italian

  

deprimere (damp, deject, depress, flatten, get depressed), demoralizzare (demoralise, demoralize), avvilire (abase, be disheartened, debase, degrade, degrade oneself, demean, dishearten, humble), accasciare (crush, fall, prostrate, wear out), abbattere (bowl over, break, break down, cut down, deject, demolish, down, fall, fell, flatten, knock down, lay, overthrow, put down, put to sleep, rase, raze, shoot down, smash down, smash in, throw). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

か弱い (be dejected, body trembling, calculating, chattering, Cheer up!, chipping, clash, clatter, crash, dry or rough feeling, feeble, feel disappointed, feel emotionally drained, feel let down, firmly, frail, frozen solid, heartbroken, overly serious, peanut brittle, rattle, rummage, rustling, shrewd, slam, solidly, solidly built, something come loose, tick-tock, tightly, tough, with a bang, with a clank). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

がっかり (be dejected, feel disappointed, feel emotionally drained, feel let down). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oselay earthay

   

Russian 

  

терять мужество, падать духом (despond). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

obeshrabriti se (quail). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

descorazonarse, achatarse (be embarrassed, get flat). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tappa modet (quail, wilt). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

cesaretini kaybetmek (despond, lose one's nerve, quail, wilt), cesareti kırılmak. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

зневіритися, занепасти духом (collapse, sing small). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

gwan-galonni. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: LOSE HEART

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

defatigatus, despondere. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: LOSE HEART

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: trehalose.

Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-l-o-r-s-t"

-1 letter: halteres, hosteler, leathers, loathers, oleaster, ratholes.

-2 letters: aethers, areoles, earshot, elaters, haltere, halters, harlots, harslet, healers, heaters, heteros, holster, hostler, lathers, leather, loather, loathes, oleates, rathole, realest, reheats, relates, reslate, roseate, shelter, shoaler, slather, soleret, stealer, thalers.

-3 letters: aether, ahorse, alerts, alters, areole, aretes, artels, ashler, ashore, earths, easter, eaters, elater, elates, estral.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-l-o-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: tracheoles, trehaloses.

 

+2 letters: altogethers, heartsomely, stakeholder.

 

+3 letters: heliolatries, heterosexual, leatherwoods, perchlorates, stakeholders, stenothermal, thermostable.

 

+4 letters: bachelorettes, dechlorinates, flamethrowers, heterosexuals, northeasterly, polyurethanes, rehospitalize, schoolteacher, softheartedly, southeasterly, treacherously, woolgatherers.

 

+5 letters: cephalometries, cholestyramine, cholinesterase, heterosexually, heterothallism, petrochemicals, rehospitalized, rehospitalizes, rheumatologies, schoolteachers, slaughterhouse, stadtholderate, stereochemical, stoutheartedly, tetrachlorides.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Translations: Ancient
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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