transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪspeə(r) ]
( despairs, despairing, despaired)
1.
Despair is the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
I looked at my wife in despair...
...feelings of despair or inadequacy.
N-UNCOUNT : also N in pl
2.
If you despair , you feel that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
‘Oh, I despair sometimes,’ he says in mock sorrow...
He does despair at much of the press criticism.
VERB : V , V at n
3.
If you despair of something, you feel that there is no hope that it will happen or improve. If you despair of someone, you feel that there is no hope that they will improve.
He wished to earn a living through writing but despaired of doing so.
VERB : V of -ing / n