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Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Short translation?
From: Bernard Frangoulis <lists@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:32:28 +0200
>I finally did what I should have done in the first place which was to go
>look up "despond" in my Webster's dictionary.  There its primary
>definition is an intransitive verb.
>
>Chuck Norcutt
>
And in the New Oxford Dictionary of English as well. But the "Origin" paragraph 
mentions that "the word was originally used as a noun in slough of despond".

Bernard

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