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DESPAIR –
noun
1. loss of hope; hopelessness.
2. someone or something that causes hopelessness: He is the despair of his mother.

–verb (used without object)
3. to lose, give up, or be without hope (often fol. by of ): to despair of humanity. –verb (used with object)
4. Obsolete . to give up hope of.