Usually means: Reduce confidence, spirit, or morale.
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  1. demoralize: Merriam-Webster
  2. demoralize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. demoralize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. demoralize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. demoralize: Vocabulary.com
  6. Demoralize, demoralize: Wordnik
  7. demoralize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. demoralize: Wiktionary
  9. demoralize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. demoralize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. demoralize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Demoralize, demoralize: Dictionary.com
  13. demoralize: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. demoralize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Demoralize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. demoralize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. demoralize: Rhymezone
  18. demoralize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. demoralize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. demoralize: FreeDictionary.org
  21. demoralize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. demoralize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. demoralize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. demoralize: Legal dictionary

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  1. demoralize: Encyclopedia

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▸ verb:  To destroy the morale of; to dishearten.
▸ verb:  (dated) To erode the moral adherence of; to corrupt.

Similar:
vitiate, debase, dispirit, deprave, deject, profane, debauch, corrupt, misdirect, dismay, more...

Opposite:
motivate, encourage, inspire

Phrases:
opposite of demoralize, more...

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Similar:
vitiate, debase, dispirit, deprave, deject, profane, debauch, corrupt, misdirect, dismay, more...

Opposite:
motivate, encourage, inspire

Phrases:
opposite of demoralize, more...

Colors:
    gray,     black,     dark blue,     charcoal,     maroon, more...



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