lose heart

lose heart

English

Verb

lose heart (third-person singular simple present loses heart, present participle losing heart, simple past and past participle lost heart)

1. To despair; to experience reduced morale.
   • 2008, Sue Grafton, J is for Judgment‎, page 159:

     There's nothing so humbling as being a dunce in a foreign tongue, and if it weren't for her compassion, we'd have lost heart after two weeks.

Antonyms

• take heart

Translations

to despair

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 灰心 (zh) (huīxīn) Finnish: tulla epätoivoiseksi, vaipua epätoivoon French: désespérer (fr), se décourager German: den Mut verlieren Greek: Ancient: ἀθυμέω (athuméō), ἐκκακέω (ekkakéō) Hungarian: elkedvetlenedik (hu), elcsügged (hu)

Italian: accasciarsi, disperarsi (it), abbattersi (it), scoraggiarsi, sfiduciarsi Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Maori: takarure, tārure Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Russian: па́дать ду́хом impf (pádatʹ dúxom), упа́сть ду́хом pf (upástʹ dúxom), отча́иваться (ru) impf (otčáivatʹsja), отча́яться (ru) pf (otčájatʹsja), опуска́ть ру́ки pf (opuskátʹ rúki) Spanish: desesperarse (es), desanimarse (es) Yiddish: אַראָפּפֿאַלן בײַ זיך‎ (aropfaln bay zikh)

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