distractors: gain destroy grow
sentence: Then there came a time when even our  coach  had given up on us.Personally,I felt like it was  no longer  worthwhile giving my all.I thought,if even the coach doesn't believe in us,why should I?But just as my hope began to  [MASK]  ,a teammate called a meeting.He said,"Nobody thinks we are going to win,but,as teammates and friends,we  owe  it to each other to go all out every game."