vertwijfelen
Meaning
to despair, to lose hope
Etymology
From (rare) Middle Dutch vertwîvelen, most likely a calque of Middle High German verzwīveln (12th c., whence modern verzweifeln). By surface analysis, ver- + twijfelen (“to doubt”).
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