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Дієприслівникова форма: підупадавши, підупадаючи
1) to decay, to fall into decay (морально);2) to grow poor, to become hard up, to lose one's fortune (матеріально);3) (на силах) to weaken, to become weak (feeble);to collapse (різко);
підупадати духом — to lose courage;
"Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party." Herbert Hoover
"Hitch your wagon to a star." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery." John Paul Jones
"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked." Walter Savage Landor