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Demoralize

verb

(past & past part. demoralized; pres. part. demoralizing)

Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality. Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate. "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men" , "Do school counselors subvert young children?" , "Corrupt the morals"

Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted. Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down. "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"

Confuse or put into disorder.

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"Demoralize" Quotes from Famous Books

... state of intoxication becomes an ungovernable maniac, who in the violence of his fury will rush into any excess and commit any crime. At the epoch which our history has now reached, the terrible vice threatened to demoralize the entire country, and to destroy the fruit of all the efforts made to convert the savages. Writing to her son on the subject, the Mother of the Incarnation says, "We have at present to contend with an evil ...

— The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation • "A Religious of the Ursuline Community"

... the men it encountered. In a fairly short time, it learned enough to understand what was planned by the criminals; and it arrived at precisely your own conclusion ... that it might be possible to reduce and demoralize the gangs to the extent that they would no longer be able to carry out their plan. It began a systematic series of attacks on them ...

— Lion Loose • James H. Schmitz

... power added to the anti-slavery movement, of great importance; it is the conviction, becoming every day more general and universal, that slavery must be abolished at the south, or it will demoralize and destroy liberty at the north. It is the nature of slavery to beget a state of things all around it favorable to its own continuance. This fact, connected with the system of bondage, is beginning to be more fully realized. The slave-holder is not satisfied ...

— My Bondage and My Freedom • Frederick Douglass

... years ago was asked why he was unwilling to agree to a demobilization of his forces or to a reduction of his army and he said because it would demoralize the industries of Germany. They could not reabsorb so many men without reducing wages and throwing upon the country so many unemployed that it would make against the welfare of the land. We will have that problem ...

— Address by Honorable Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior at Conference of Regional Chairmen of the Highway Transport Committee Council of National Defence • US Government

... the social efficiency of the Negro, tend to degrade and demoralize him. The argument that the deprivation of the Negro's political and social rights in the South tends to crush his ambition, warp his aspirations and distort his judgment, is unsound, because his self-reliance, ambition and independence in the South can be traced ...

— Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt • William James Edwards

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