Usually means: Lost all hope; deeply pessimistic.
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  1. despaired: Merriam-Webster
  2. despaired: Collins English Dictionary
  3. despaired: Vocabulary.com
  4. despaired: Wordnik
  5. despaired: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. despaired: Wiktionary
  7. Despaired, despaired: Dictionary.com
  8. despaired: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Despaired: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Despaired: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. despaired: FreeDictionary.org
  12. despaired: TheFreeDictionary.com

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(Note: See despair as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (despair)

verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to despair.
verb:  (intransitive, often with “of”) To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.
noun:  Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
noun:  That which causes despair.
noun:  That which is despaired of.
▸ Also see despair


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