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deject

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Is deject a Scrabble word?

Yes, deject is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 16 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of deject?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (transitive) Make sad or dispirited.Examples: "[…] the Thoughts of my Friends, and native Country, and the Improbability of ever seeing them again, made me very melancholy; and dejected me to that Degree, that sometimes I could not forbear indulging my Grief in private, and bursting out into a Flood of Tears."; "On the other hand, there is nothing which dejects school children quite so much as failure."Synonyms: depress, get down, aggrieve, attrist, begloom, begrieve, besorrow, grievetransitive

2. (obsolete, transitive) To cast downward.Examples: "[…] sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look."; "Princely wisdom, then, Dejects his watchful eye; and from the hand Of feeble justice, ineffectual, drop The sword and balance: mute the voice of joy, and hush'd the clamour of the busy world."; "supplication, that is, entreatment, can be made more artificial if the speaker dejects both hands."Synonyms: downcast, throw downobsoletetransitive

noun (English)

1. (usually in the plural) A waste product.Examples: "... the bacteriological examination of the dejects of all persons presenting choleraic symptoms and of all persons who have been exposed to infection and who have loose and frequent discharges from the bowels; the disinfection of the dejects of such persons and of all articles which may possibly be contaiminated by the same; […]"; "Along the 90 kilometers of the Tiete river in the greater São Paulo region, it receives a huge amount of dejects, both industrial and human (the latter, dejects collected by sewer systems, dumped untreated or with inadequate treatment in the river)."; "The region is characterized by an intense intervention of anthropogenic activities, existence of more than 1.700 oil wells, dutes, storage and transport structures of gas and oil, ponds for stabilization and treatment of dejects, pumping and collecting stations besides a marine salt industry and wide areas with activities of shrimp farms."plural-normally

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "deject"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "deject"?

Scrabble
16 points
D2
E1
J8
E1
C3
T1
Words With Friends
19 points
D2
E1
J10
E1
C4
T1

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