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English Dictionary: mope by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mope
n
  1. someone who wastes time [syn: dallier, dillydallier, dilly-dallier, mope, lounger]
v
  1. move around slowly and aimlessly [syn: mope, {mope around}]
  2. be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed
    Synonym(s): mope, moon around, moon about
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mope \Mope\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Moped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Moping}.] [Cf. D. moppen to pout, Prov. G. muffen to sulk.]
      To be dull and spiritless. [bd]Moping melancholy.[b8]
      --Milton.
  
               A sickly part of one true sense Could not so mope.
                                                                              --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mope \Mope\, v. t.
      To make spiritless and stupid. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mope \Mope\, n.
      A dull, spiritless person. --Burton.
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