Usually means: Make someone lose courage, hope.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. dishearten: Merriam-Webster
  2. dishearten: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dishearten: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dishearten: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dishearten: Vocabulary.com
  6. dishearten: Wordnik
  7. dishearten: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dishearten: Wiktionary
  9. dishearten: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dishearten: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dishearten: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dishearten, dishearten: Dictionary.com
  13. dishearten: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Dishearten: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. dishearten: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. dishearten: Rhymezone
  17. dishearten: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. dishearten: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. dishearten: FreeDictionary.org
  20. dishearten: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. dishearten: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dishearten: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dishearten)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To discourage someone by removing their enthusiasm or courage.

Similar:
put off, disheart, discourage, unheart, dispirit, disanimate, demoralize, dash, amate, lose heart, more...

Types:
sadden, gloom, dismay, deject, depress, more...

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Similar:
put off, disheart, discourage, unheart, dispirit, disanimate, demoralize, dash, amate, lose heart, more...

Types:
sadden, gloom, dismay, deject, depress, more...

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     taupe,     pewter,     smoke, more...



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