| despair(verb, drop, give, abandon, yield) |
| despond(verb, drop, destroy, abandon, yield) |
| droop(verb, idle, sulk, languish, pine) |
| falter(verb, flag) |
| give up(verb, expression, phrasal verb, surrender, falter) |
| give up hope(verb, expression, idiom, drop, abandon) |
| give up on(verb, expression, idiom, drop, abandon) |
| give way(verb, expression, phrasal verb, drop, destroy) |
| languish(verb, sulk, pine, brood, pout) |
| lose hope(verb, expression, drop, abandon, yield) |
| plumb the depths(verb, expression, idiom, drop, abandon) |
| sink(verb, idle, sulk, despair, languish) |
| abandon hope |
| ache(verb, idle, sulk, languish, pine) |
| back down on(expression, surrender, capitulate, loser) |
| be apathetic(verb, idle, sulk, languish, pine) |
| be dejected(verb, idle, sulk, languish, pine) |
| be down in the mouth(verb, idle, sulk, languish, pine) |
| be gloomy(verb, idle, sulk, languish, pine) |
| be hopeless(verb, drop, destroy, abandon, yield) |