different between terrify vs deject
terrify
English
Alternative forms
- terrifie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle French terrifier, from Latin terrificare
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t???fa?/
Verb
terrify (third-person singular simple present terrifies, present participle terrifying, simple past and past participle terrified)
- To frighten greatly; to fill with terror.
- To menace or intimidate.
- (obsolete) To make terrible.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:frighten
Related terms
- terrible
- terrific
- terrifying
- terror
- terrorist
- terrorize
Translations
terrify From the web:
- what terrifies you
deject
English
Etymology
From Old French dejeter, from Latin deicere (“to throw down”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??d??kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
Verb
deject (third-person singular simple present dejects, present participle dejecting, simple past and past participle dejected)
- (transitive) Make sad or dispirited.
- 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 73,[1]
- […] the Thoughts of my Friends, and native Country, and the Improbability of ever seeing them again, made me very melancholy; and dejected me to that Degree, that sometimes I could not forbear indulging my Grief in private, and bursting out into a Flood of Tears.
- 1933 Arthur Melville Jordan: Educational Psychology (page 60) [2]
- On the other hand, there is nothing which dejects school children quite so much as failure.
- 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 73,[1]
- (obsolete, transitive) To cast downward.
- 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge: John Williams, Book 5, Chapter 1, p. 358,[3]
- […] sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look.
- 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge: John Williams, Book 5, Chapter 1, p. 358,[3]
- To debase or humble.
Translations
Noun
deject (plural dejects)
- One who is lowly or abject.
- (usually in the plural) A waste product.
Derived terms
- dejected
- dejection
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