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v. t.
Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character.
a.
Deceiving, or tending of deceive; fallacious; illusive; as, illusory promises or hopes.
v. i.
To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one's self or one's hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others.
v. t.
To bring to poverty; to impoverish; to ruin, as in reputation, morals, hopes, or the like; as, many are undone by unavoidable losses, but more undo themselves by vices and dissipation, or by indolence.
n.
That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.
v. t.
To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.
a.
Elated with great ideas or hopes.
n.
The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance; as, the evanescence of vapor, of a dream, of earthly plants or hopes.
n.
Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution or a government; the ruin of health or hopes.
n.
The act of overthrowing, pulling down, or destroying a pile or structure; destruction by violence; utter overthrow; -- opposed to construction; as, the demolition of a house, of military works, of a town, or of hopes.
v. t.
To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered.
a.
Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness.
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Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.
v. t.
To desire with expectation or with belief in the possibility or prospect of obtaining; to look forward to as a thing desirable, with the expectation of obtaining it; to cherish hopes of.
v. t.
Hence, to frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow; as, to scatter hopes, plans, or the like.
a.
To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun; to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes.
v. t.
To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite and disappoint the hopes of.
v. t.
To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation.
n.
One who hopes.
v. i.
To afford hopes or expectation; to give ground to expect good; rarely, to give reason to expect evil.
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