12
despair(noun, verb, drop, give, abandon)
7
despondence(noun, sadness, hope, despair, despondency)
7
despondency(noun, hope, dejection, despair, desperation)
7
mope(verb, consider, worry, fret, contemplate)
6
brood(verb, break, worry, fail, weaken)
5
desperation(noun, hope, despair, despondency)
5
give up(verb, expression, phrasal verb, surrender, lose)
5
gloom(noun, verb, consider, worry, fret)
5
hopelessness(noun, hope, despair, despondency, desperation)
4
lose heart(verb, expression, idiom, drop, destroy)
4
dejection(noun, despair, despondency, desperation)
4
droop(sulk, dejection, languish, pine, brood)
4
give way(verb, expression, phrasal verb, drop, destroy)
4
languish(verb, dull, consider, worry, fail)
4
sink(sulk, dejection, languish, pine, brood)
3
blues(noun, dejection)
3
depression(noun, despair, despondency, desperation)
3
desperateness(noun, sadness, hope, unhappiness, despair)
3
dishearten(verb, surrender, despair)
3
grieve(verb, break, consider, worry, fail)
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