demoralize
verb
, 藢d膿-, -藞m盲r-\
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, 藢d膿- , -藢m盲r- \
noun
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noun
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adverb
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Synonyms
emasculate, paralyze, undo, unman, unnerve, unstring
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Their relentless winning has demoralized everyone else. — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, "10 Big Questions Ahead of the 2019 U.S. Open," 24 Aug. 2019 Meanwhile, the demoralized Bulldogs limped into the Sugar Bowl against Texas and fell behind by 21 points during a 28-21 defeat. — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, "2019 College Football Countdown: No. 3 Georgia looks to break through, win SEC," 22 Aug. 2019 The fact that harassers, abusers, and other bad actors seem to flourish on the platform without consequence is demoralizing, to say the least, and not only because users have been clamoring for some kind of decisive action for years. — Bijan Stephen, The Verge, "Lil Nas X became Twitter鈥檚 CEO for a day and didn鈥檛 ban the Nazis," 29 July 2019 Kauffmann gave way to sophomore righty Jeff Criswell, who made easy work of the demoralized Red Raiders in the final three innings. — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, "Michigan baseball's stunning journey hits final stage: On brink of championship," 21 June 2019 Does Facebook know how to change its newsfeed algorithm to demoralize one set of voters and motivate another? — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, "The Move to Reclaim Privacy," 18 June 2019 Leaderless, weakened, and demoralized, the RUF began to retreat. — Janine Di Giovanni, The New York Review of Books, "Sierra Leone, 2000: A Case History in Successful Interventionism," 7 June 2019 After a series of internal investigations and journalistic exposes, both denominations are reeling from scandals that have stained their reputations and demoralized the faithful. — Daniel Burke, CNN, "Why the nation's two largest religious groups are talking about sex abuse this week," 10 June 2019 The company behind Barbie, Hot Wheels and Fisher-Price had been in tumult for years, as declining toy sales and the loss of key licenses devastated its share price and demoralized its workforce. — Paul Ziobro, WSJ, "Barbie, Hot Wheels Go to Hollywood in Mattel CEO鈥檚 Turnaround Plan," 17 Apr. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'demoralize.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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