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Blue bottle getting passed around (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dispirited

'blue' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'bottle getting passed around' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'bottle' could be 'spirit' (I've seen this before) and 'spirit' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'died' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

(Other definitions for dispirited that I've seen before include "Dejected, discouraged" , "low" .)

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