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- Dictionarydemoralizing/dɪˈmɒrəlʌɪzɪŋ/
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- 1. causing someone to lose confidence or hope; disheartening: "the demoralizing effect of imprisonment"
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demoralizing. adjective. (UK usually demoralising) uk / dɪˈmɒr.ə.laɪ.zɪŋ / us / dɪˈmɔːr.ə.laɪ.zɪŋ /. Add to word list. Add to word list. making you lose confidence, enthusiasm, and hope: Being out of work for a long time is very demoralizing. The team had suffered two demoralizing losses. See.
1. : to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : to corrupt the morals of. 2. a. : to weaken the morale of : discourage, dispirit. were demoralized by the loss. b. : to upset or destroy the normal functioning of. foreclosures were further demoralizing an already desperate real-estate market F. D. Roosevelt. c.
to make someone or something feel much less confident: Losing several games in a row had completely demoralized the team. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Making people sad, shocked and upset. aback. amiss. appal. be laughing on the other side of your face idiom. bite. bum. haunt. heartbreaker. heartbreakingly.
Meaning of demoralize in English. demoralize. verb [ T ] (UK usually demoralise) us / dɪˈmɔːr.ə.laɪz / uk / dɪˈmɒr.ə.laɪz / Add to word list. to make someone or something feel much less confident: Losing several games in a row had completely demoralized the team. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Making people sad, shocked and upset.
to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry. to throw (a person) into disorder or confusion; bewilder: We were so demoralized by that one wrong turn that we were lost for hours. to corrupt or undermine the morals of. demoralize. / dɪˈmɒrəˌlaɪz / verb.
1. To undermine the confidence or morale of; dishearten: an inconsistent policy that demoralized the staff. 2. To put into disorder; confuse. 3. To debase the morals of; corrupt. de·mor′al·i·za′tion (-ə-lĭ-zā′shən) n. de·mor′al·iz′er n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
Things that discourage you, or make you lose confidence, are demoralizing. It can be demoralizing to study hard for a test and do badly on it. When you are rejected — getting turned down for a job or a date or a scholarship — it's demoralizing.
verb. If something demoralizes someone, it makes them lose so much confidence in what they are doing that they want to give up. Clearly, one of the objectives is to demoralize the enemy troops in any way they can. [VERB noun] Synonyms: dishearten, undermine, discourage, shake More Synonyms of demoralize. demoralized adjective.
verb. /dɪˈmɒrəlaɪz/ /dɪˈmɔːrəlaɪz/ ( British English also demoralise) Verb Forms. demoralize somebody to make somebody lose confidence or hope synonym dishearten. Constant criticism is enough to demoralize anybody. The world depression further demoralized the labour movement.
1. To undermine the confidence or morale of; dishearten: an inconsistent policy that demoralized the staff. 2. To put into disorder; confuse. 3. To debase the morals of; corrupt. de·mor′al·i·za′tion (-ə-lĭ-zā′shən) n. de·mor′al·iz′er n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
