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| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: LOSE HEART |
| English words defined with "LOSE HEART": despair ♦ Unheart. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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. | ||
Expression using "LOSE HEART": To lose heart. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 терять мужество, падать духом (despond). (various references) obeshrabriti se (quail). (various references) descorazonarse, achatarse (be embarrassed, get flat). (various references) tappa modet (quail, wilt). (various references) cesaretini kaybetmek (despond, lose one's nerve, quail, wilt), cesareti kırılmak. (various references) зневіритися, занепасти духом (collapse, sing small). (various references) gwan-galonni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | defatigatus, despondere. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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. | |
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| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Modern 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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