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  • verbdepress, unnerve
  • verbcorrupt, pervert

synonyms for demoralize

  • cripple
  • dampen
  • daunt
  • debilitate
  • deject
  • disconcert
  • discourage
  • dishearten
  • disorganize
  • dispirit
  • disturb
  • embarrass
  • sap
  • undermine
  • unsettle
  • upset
  • weaken
  • abash
  • chill
  • damp
  • disarrange
  • discountenance
  • disorder
  • disparage
  • enfeeble
  • jumble
  • muddle
  • nonplus
  • rattle
  • shake
  • snarl
  • unman
  • unzip
  • blow out
  • blow up
  • get to
  • psych out
  • send up
  • take apart
  • take steam out
  • unglue
See also synonyms for: demoralization / demoralized / demoralizing
On this page you'll find 121 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to demoralize, such as: cripple, dampen, daunt, debilitate, deject, and disconcert.

antonyms for demoralize

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  • aid
  • assist
  • calm
  • comfort
  • compose
  • encourage
  • hearten
  • help
  • inspirit
  • order
  • organize
  • please
  • soothe
  • strengthen
  • approve
  • arrange
  • clear up
  • educate
  • enlighten
  • explain
  • placate
  • sanction
  • boost
  • make good
  • moralize
  • purify
  • uplift
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How to use demoralize in a sentence

The first restricts drug use, possession, sale, and distribution to the purposes of science or medicine, while the second sees collaboration to intercept and demoralize drug traffickers.
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Which means that they are still good enough to demoralize the competition in some of the more low-profile races around the globe.
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She warned that taking away school police would demoralize Alexandria staff.
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I don’t know what is right now, the principles of democracy have been so denigrated and demoralized around the world.
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Police Commissioner Dermot Shea has said that his officers are feeling constrained by a new bill passed by the City Council that makes it a crime to put their knee into someone’s back and are feeling demoralized by a general lack of public support.
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This was the beginning of the fatal practice destined in the end to enervate France and demoralize the army.
THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTEWILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANE
Not a brigade from Lee had reached the city, and the disaster was calculated to demoralize the Rebel soldiers.
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The worst of it was that his behavior, as I could see, had already begun to demoralize the objects of his misplaced politeness.
A TRAVELER FROM ALTRURIA: ROMANCEWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
Let us guard the children and put down every influence that would tend to demoralize either our boys or girls!
PRISONS AND PRAYER: OR A LABOR OF LOVEELIZABETH RYDER WHEATON
Let us put down with an indignant rebuke every attempt to demoralize our action or destroy its effect.
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WORDS RELATED TO DEMORALIZE

  • bastardize
  • bestialize
  • brutalize
  • debase
  • debauch
  • degrade
  • dehumanize
  • demoralize
  • deprave
  • stain
  • vitiate
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