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despair

/dɪ'spɜr/ · dɪspɜr

Despair has 2 syllables: de · spair.

de
01
spair
02

noun. A state in which all hope is lost or absent.

verb. Abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart.

noun. The feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well.

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