Demoralize

English

Verb

Demoralize (third-person singular simple present Demoralizes, present participle demoralizing, simple past and past participle demoralized)

1. (American) To destroy morale; to dishearten.

Adjectives for Demoralize

incredible; widespread; social; linguistic; nervous.

Verbs for Demoralize

aid in—; check—; guard against—; influence—; prevent—; produce—; protect from—; yield to—; —corrupts; —deprives; —destroys; —envelops; —lowers; —reduces; —seeps in; —unnerves; —weakens.

Synonyms for Demoralize

corrupt, confuse, disconcert, disorganize, discourage, undermine, pervert, incapacitate.

Antonyms for Demoralize

encourage, organize, exalt, hearten, inspire, invigorate.

Thesaurus

agitate, bastardize, bewilder, bludgeon, bluster, bluster out of, browbeat, brutalize, bulldoze, bully, chill, confuse, corrupt, cow, cripple, crush, damp, dampen, dash, daunt, debase, debauch, debilitate, defeat, defile, deject, deprave, depress, devitalize, disarrange, discomfit, disconcert, discourage, dishearten, disorder, disorganize, disparage, dispirit, disturb, dragoon, enervate, fluster, harass, hector, huff, intimidate, jumble, knock down, muddle, overcome, perturb, pervert, prostrate, psych out, rattle, shake, shake up, snarl, soil, subdue, sully, systematically terrorize, terrorize, threaten, unbrace, undermine, undo, unman, unnerve, unsettle, unstring, upset, vitiate, warp, weaken

Alternative forms

• (UK) demoralise

Translations

to destroy morale; to dishearten

Czech: demoralizovat (cs)

Danish: demoralisere (da)