Thesaurus / demoralize
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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.
THE UN NOW SAYS MEDICAL WEED IS A LESS DANGEROUS DRUGJARIEL ARVINDECEMBER 3, 2020VOXWhich means that they are still good enough to demoralize the competition in some of the more low-profile races around the globe.
BEHIND THE SCENES OF A UNIQUE FKT ATTEMPT IN KENYAMARTIN FRITZ HUBERNOVEMBER 24, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEShe warned that taking away school police would demoralize Alexandria staff.
ALEXANDRIA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS APPROVES REVISIONS TO CONTRACT WITH POLICEHANNAH NATANSONOCTOBER 30, 2020WASHINGTON POSTI don’t know what is right now, the principles of democracy have been so denigrated and demoralized around the world.
GETTING TO THE DANCE WITH DEBBIE ALLENEUGENE ROBINSONOCTOBER 5, 2020OZYPolice 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.
WHAT CAN MAYORS DO WHEN THE POLICE STOP DOING THEIR JOBS?BY ALEC MACGILLISSEPTEMBER 3, 2020PROPUBLICAThis was the beginning of the fatal practice destined in the end to enervate France and demoralize the army.
THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTEWILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANENot a brigade from Lee had reached the city, and the disaster was calculated to demoralize the Rebel soldiers.
THE BOYS OF '61CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.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 HOWELLSLet 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 WHEATONLet us put down with an indignant rebuke every attempt to demoralize our action or destroy its effect.
A REPORT OF THE DEBATES AND PROCEEDINGS IN THE SECRET SESSIONS OF THE CONFERENCE CONVENTIONLUCIUS EUGENE CHITTENDENWORDS RELATED TO DEMORALIZE
- abash
- agitate
- baffle
- balk
- bewilder
- bug
- confound
- demoralize
- disarrange
- discombobulate
- discomfit
- discompose
- discountenance
- disturb
- embarrass
- faze
- fluster
- foul up
- frustrate
- get to
- hinder
- nonplus
- perplex
- perturb
- psych out
- put off
- puzzle
- rattle
- ruffle
- take aback
- throw off balance
- trouble
- unbalance
- undo
- unsettle
- upset
- upset the apple cart
- worry
- abashes
- afflicts
- alarms
- appalls
- awes
- beats down
- bothers
- breaks one's heart
- bullies
- casts down
- chills
- confuses
- cows
- dampens
- dashes
- daunts
- dejects
- demoralizes
- deprecates
- depresses
- dismays
- disparages
- distresses
- droops
- frightens
- intimidates
- irks
- overawes
- prostrates
- represses
- scares
- throws cold water on
- tries
- troubles
- unnerves
- vexes
- weighs
- abuse
- belittle
- chill
- cry down
- decry
- defame
- degrade
- deject
- demoralize
- denigrate
- deprecate
- depreciate
- deride
- derogate
- dis
- discourage
- discredit
- disdain
- dishearten
- dismiss
- dispirit
- dispraise
- downcry
- dump on
- lower
- malign
- minimize
- pan
- put down
- put hooks in
- rap
- ridicule
- roast
- run down
- scorch
- scorn
- slam
- slander
- smear
- sour grapes
- tear down
- traduce
- underestimate
- underrate
- undervalue
- vilify
- write off
- affright
- agitate
- alarm
- appall
- astound
- awe
- browbeat
- bulldoze
- chill
- chill to the bone
- cow
- curdle the blood
- daunt
- demoralize
- deter
- disburb
- discomfort
- disconcert
- discourage
- dishearten
- dismay
- disquiet
- faze
- horrify
- intimidate
- make blood run cold
- make teeth chatter
- panic
- perturb
- petrify
- repel
- scare away
- scare off
- scare to death
- spook
- startle
- stiff
- strike terror into
- terrify
- terrorize
- unhinge
- unnerve
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