despair
noun
loss of hope; hopelessness.
are despairing
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present progressiveof despair.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Laura-Rose says she receives hundreds of enquiries from people who are "despairing" and do not have 10 years to wait for the rules to change.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2023
“Some people are despairing that people have just become unmoored from facts, that there is a substantial part of the audience that may be unreachable,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
They are despairing about what they are seeing in parliament.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 9, 2019
More and more people are despairing on both sides.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2013
There are despairing moments, when the happy seem natural enemies of the miserable, and Ann was passing through them.
From Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
