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— English words —

• despair v. (Transitive, obsolete) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
• despair v. (Transitive) To cause to despair.
• despair v. (Intransitive, often with “of”) To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.
• despair n. Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
• despair n. That which causes despair.
• despair n. That which is despaired of. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

— English words, defined in French —

• despair v. (Transitif) (Désuet) Désespérer.
• despair v. (Transitif) (Désuet) Désespérer, causer le désespoir.
• despair v. (Intransitif) Se désespérer.
• despair v. (Despair of) (Vieilli) Se désespérer de.
• despair n. Désespoir.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• despair s. Humanidades. Desesperación.
• despair v. Desesperar, desesperarse.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• despair s. Desesperança, desilusão.
• despair v. Desistir.

30 English words from 6 English definitions

add all beyond Can cause causes complete despair despaired despondency example expectation for give give␣up have hope hopeless hopelessness Intransitive Loss obsolete often sense That this Transitive utter which with

2 English words from 9 foreign definitions

causer Despair

13 foreign words from 9 foreign definitions

Desesperación Desesperança Desesperar desesperarse désespérer désespoir desilusão Desistir Désuet Humanidades Intransitif Transitif Vieilli

13 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

despairs despaired despairer despairers despairest despaireth despairful despairing despairings despairfully despairingly despairfulness despairingness

2 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

undespairing undespairingly

8 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

self-despair pit␣of␣despair pits␣of␣despair climate␣despair death␣of␣despair disease␣of␣despair compare␣and␣despair diseases␣of␣despair

17 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

air 'air des dEs Des DEs DES des- esp ESP esp. pair Pair spa Spa SpA SPA

11 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

APs APS apse apsed IAP IAPs PSE ria RIA sed SED

8 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

aperids aspired diapers Pardesi Pardies Piedras praised pre-AIDS

46 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

airspeed apprised dapifers despairs diaspore DiPernas dispread drapiest epacrids escarpid lipreads meraspid Paradesi paradise Paradise Pardesis parished parkside Parkside parodies parodise parslied passerid pedaries pedrails peracids perditas Pereidas perissad piecards præside predials presidia raphides rapidest read␣lips ride␣pass ripsawed scrapied Sephardi spiraled spirated sprained spreadin' traipsed upraised

57 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

aiders AIDSer aperid apside arised Arispe aspire deairs diaper drapes dreaps idears irades padres Padres paired paires pardie Pardis parids paries Paries Parise parsed Pearis perais Persad Persia piedra Piedra praise prides Prides prised raised rapids RAPIDS rasped redias redips re-dips repads repaid resaid risped saried spader Spader spared sparid spider Spider spirea spired 'spired spraid spread

2 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

Despain dispair

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