despairs

present tense third-person singular of despair

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Recent Examples of despairs When Eva suddenly disappears without a trace, the priest despairs, leading him to commit a series of shocking and violent crimes. Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for despairs
Verb
  • The annual hand-wringing around whether New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone should be fired is already under way, but that won’t be decided for weeks as the club’s management takes a breath and grieves the club’s latest playoff exit.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 12 Oct. 2025
  • In Saunders’s afterlife, various spirits join Willie, Lincoln’s eleven-year-old son who has died from typhoid fever, while his father grieves in the crypt.
    Book Marks October 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Sister mourns her beloved brother Susan Lingle grew up in a household with brothers, and as the only girl in her family, she was loved and protected by them.
    Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Sep. 2025
  • As America mourns the loss of Charlie Kirk, a substantive void must be addressed.
    Alex Rosado, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Police said that on the morning of March 18, officers took the unidentified man, who suffers from mental illness, to Henry Ford Hospital.
    Nour Rahal, Freep.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Amazon Web Services suffers outage.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Despairs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/despairs. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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