(v. i.) To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.
(v. t.) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
(v. t.) To cause to despair.
(n.) Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
(n.) That which is despaired of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Crushing their dream of denying healthcare to millions of people will put them on that road to despair.
(2) It was the ease with which minor debt could slide into a tangle of hunger and despair.
(3) The behavioural despair test is a good complement for screening except for drugs having a beta-agonist activity, it appears that this test is dependent on functional relationships between alpha 2 and serotonergic systems.
(4) It became his task to use his literary art in an opposite way to Hesse, even though he despaired of what literature might achieve or of the capacity of rich Europeans to change.
(5) He has his job to do and he has to do it the way he thinks best.” On Saturday night, in a sign of the growing concern at the top of the party about the affair, one shadow cabinet member told the Observer : “The issue is already echoing back at us on the doorsteps.” At all levels, there was despair that the furore had turned the spotlight on to Labour’s difficulties as a time when the party had hoped to take advantage of the Tories’ second byelection loss at the hands of Ukip.
(6) Many have been driven to a suicidal despair that only those devoid of human empathy can fail to understand.
(7) In recent weeks a number of suicides apparently linked to financial despair have hit the headlines.
(8) "You can get six, seven or eight calls a day, which would add to anyone's despair and depression.
(9) Thus in your own words you have said why it was utterly inappropriate for you to use the platform of a Pac hearing in this way.” He suggested that many professionals were “in despair at the lack of understanding and cheap haranguing which characterise your manner” after a series of hearings at which Hodge has led fierce interrogations of senior business figures and others.
(10) For Foos, arousal often competed with despair and sadness at what he witnessed.
(11) | Hugh Muir Read more Wherever Labour people gather to discuss how to break out of the vice tightening around the party, answers fail amid sighs of utter despair.
(12) The presumed interrelation between early rearing conditions and the neurobiological status of the infant that might lead to increased risk for despair is not understood.
(13) Erik Erikson used the film character of Dr. Borg from Wild Strawberries to flesh out his life cycle conception of ego integrity versus despair in old age.
(14) But the character – compounded of piercing sanity and existential despair, infinite hesitation and impulsive action, self-laceration and observant irony – is so multi-faceted, it is bound to coincide at some point with an actor’s particular gifts.
(15) He is an innately optimistic character as well as a clever one, and a man who needs to persuade his party not to despair.
(16) The present report deals with the effects of CBZ on two animal models of depression, namely the potentiation of amphetamine-induced anorexia, and the behavioral despair model.
(17) That is the secret of his repetitive name (like Nabokov's criminal hero in his novel Despair: Hermann Hermann, a misprint for Mr Man Mr Man).
(18) On the one hand, he genuinely sees himself as the great liberator of the poor, the man who wept at Britain’s modern-day penury on Glasgow’s Easterhouse estate; on the other, he is the champion of policies that have driven some of the poorest people in society into despair.
(19) Ovariectomy changed the swimming time course and increased the rhythmical index of depression without other serious disturbances of the behavioural "despair" test.
(20) I wanted to rediscover my joy in writing, I wanted to leave behind the heaviness and despair of Dead Europe .
Diaper
Definition:
(n.) Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2.
(n.) Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.
(n.) A towel or napkin for wiping the hands, etc.
(n.) An infant's breechcloth.
(v. t.) To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving.
(v. t.) To put a diaper on (a child).
(v. i.) To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) This allowed for the controlled assessment of skin condition with respect to diaper type.
(2) Dermatophytosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of rashes in the diaper area.
(3) In group 1 (50 patients) a traditional closed urinary drainage system was used, while in group 2 (50 patients) an open drainage system into doubled diapers was used.
(4) Despite the overall low prevalence of diaper dermatitis in the newborn period, 7 of 204 infants evaluated had small skin erosions in the diaper area noted within the first 4 days of age.
(5) The questionnaire data revealed that pretrained fathers diapered and fed the newborn significantly more often than the untrained fathers.
(6) Little is known about diaper rash and diapering materials in AD.
(7) Most mothers have made a diaper choice by the time an infant is born.
(8) The disease implies a congenital intrauterine infection and is different from neonatal candidiasis which manifests as thrush, diaper dermatitis.
(9) The authors presents 3 cases of Kawasaki disease where, in all cases, a perineal rash or rash located in the diaper area, was an initial or predominant sign.
(10) The majority of incontinent patients still residing in the community were being managed by nonspecific techniques such as diapers and toileting schedules.
(11) Outbreaks are commonest in centers that are large, have long operating hours, and enroll children younger than the age of two years (i.e., those in diapers).
(12) However, by improving the inherently adverse relationship between diapers and diapered skin, one can have a significant effect on the incidence and severity of diaper dermatitis.
(13) Infants diapered in disposable diapers with AGM had a significantly (P 0.032) lower mean grade of diaper dermatitis during diarrhea episodes and a lower (P 0.054) mean grade during antibiotic use, compared to those diapered in conventional disposable diapers.
(14) Results were excellent for diapers A and B: there were no significant differences observed in water content of the corneum when A and B were compared with conventional cotton diapers.
(15) Statistical correlations between diaper dermatitis and age, presence of atopic dermatitis, and health conditions were found.
(16) Diaper dermatitis is a term used to encompass a wide range of inflammatory processes that occur in the area covered by the diaper.
(17) Expressing his gratitude to all foreign countries for the aid, Vucic said Serbia now needed "food, baby food, diapers, all kind of clothes, medicaments, bottled water, disinfection and hygienic resources".
(18) A form-fitting glans condom has been developed for use in small uncircumcised males with neurogenic bladders to avoid the problems inherent with diapers.
(19) The common use of the triple diaper treatment is not recommended.
(20) During this care the mother holds her diaper-clad premature infant against her skin beneath her clothing and allows self-regulatory access to breast-feeding.