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as in to paralyze
to deprive of courage or confidence
the mere sight of the forbidding cliffs demoralized the climbers
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as in to discourage
to lessen the courage or confidence of
we refused to be demoralized by our humiliating defeat and vowed to come roaring back the following week
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as in to humiliate
to lower in character, dignity, or quality
felt society as a whole has been demoralized by the widespread availability of pornography
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Recent Examples of demoralize
The struggles coupled together turned into a demoralizing late-season loss for a season that was already finished.
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Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 24 Dec. 2024
Train service to the city was badly demoralized, only one train making the trip from Hutchinson to Minneapolis.
—Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
Even so, using Reddit Answers is a demoralizing experience.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2025
The policy blitz is intended to demoralize and disorient ordinary Americans and force them into resignation—either literal or figurative—to the far right's designs for American government and democracy.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for demoralize
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Leaders who excel at leading through crisis understand the importance of focusing on what is actionable rather than being paralyzed by uncertainty.—
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And yet much like the Democrats paralyzed by the chaos at home, the last three days have exceeded their worst nightmares.—
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These changes could have a broader chilling effect across the government, discouraging public officials from questioning the president.—
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Have you even been discouraged by failure when trying to reach a goal?—
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The biggest threat facing the pair is senior MI6 official Jim Richardson (Hugh Bonneville), who has been keeping tabs on the Sudanese, and sees in Martian’s love for Samia an opportunity to both humiliate and strong-arm his former ally into sharing CIA secrets.—
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Someone may be a masochist but not into being humiliated.—
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He's not intimidated by operating in the shadow of such giants.—
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Yeah, Larkin, 10 years older, sure wasn’t intimidated Saturday night.—
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Many Americans are frustrated with the twice-annual time changes, but no legislation has been passed to make daylight saving time permanent.—
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While meant to prevent unnecessary spending and inappropriate care, UM delays care, frustrates doctors and patients and erodes trust between all parties.—
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To strip her name from her and contort it into a term that is most often used to degrade artists who look like her is simply dehumanizing.—
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Topaz Labs View 1 Images Topaz Labs, which makes powerful photo and video enhancement software, just showed off a new AI model that automatically enhances old footage, from your home video collection to archival content that may have degraded over time on traditional media.—
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Thousands of residents and visitors have left Santorini, frightened by the earthquakes measuring between magnitude 3 and magnitude 5 in the area since the weekend.—
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President Trump did no one any favors and his irresponsible accusations were meant to confuse and spread an unfounded conspiracy while both trying to score political points as well as frighten the flying public needlessly.—
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In the bond market, Treasury yields fell after a report said sales at U.S. retailers weakened by much more last month than economists expected.—
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His executive order, unless reversed by the courts, will encourage greater corruption in Latin America, hurting the region’s economies, weakening democratic institutions and making countries poorer.—
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“Demoralize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demoralize. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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