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Definition of Disappoint

Disappoint

  1. To defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions, expectations, or plans are disappointed; a bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil.
  2. To frustrate; to fail; to hinder of result.

Disappoint Quotations

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
Elbert Hubbard

It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.
Susan Hampshire

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
Anne Lamott

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.
Sarah Bernhardt

People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them.
Jason Statham
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Disappoint Translations

disappoint in Danish is skuffe
disappoint in Dutch is tegenvallen, ontgoochelen
disappoint in Italian is deludere
disappoint in Latin is frustro
disappoint in Norwegian is skuffe
disappoint in Portuguese is decepcione
disappoint in Spanish is decepcionado, desencantar

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