Meaning of DEMORALIZE
| Pronunciation: | | di'moru`lIz
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- [v] confuse or put into disorder; "the boss's behavior demoralized everyone in the office"
- [v] lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
- [v] corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"
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| | Synonyms: | | cast down, corrupt, debase, debauch, deject, demoralise, demoralise, deprave, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
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| | Antonyms: | | elate, intoxicate, lift up, pick up, uplift | | |
| | See Also: | | alter, bastardise, bastardize, bedevil, befuddle, carnalise, carnalize, change, chill, confound, confuse, discombobulate, discourage, fox, fuddle, infect, lead astray, lead off, poison, sensualise, sensualize, suborn, throw, whore | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \De*mor"al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Demoralized};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Demoralizing}.] [F. d['e]moraliser; pref.
d['e]- (L. dis- or de) + moraliser. See {Moralize}.]
To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the
effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or
untrustworthy in morals, in discipline, in courage, spirit,
etc.; to weaken in spirit or efficiency.
The demoralizing example of profligate power and
prosperous crime. --Walsh.
The vices of the nobility had demoralized the army.
--Bancroft.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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