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demoralizingverbpresent participle of demoralize to deprive of courage or confidencethe mere sight of the forbidding cliffs demoralized the climbers emasculating, paralyzing, undoing, unmanning, unnerving, unstringing debilitating, enervating, enfeebling, neutering, weakeningprostrating, sapping, softening, tiring, wastingfrightening, intimidating, psyching (out), scaring, terrifying, terrorizingdaunting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiritingcrazing, deranging, maddening, unbalancing, unhingingdiscomposing, disquieting, disturbing, fazing, perturbing, unsettling, upsetting, weirding out nerving fortifying, strengtheningemboldening, encouraging, heartening to lessen the courage or confidence ofwe refused to be demoralized by our humiliating defeat and vowed to come roaring back the following week chilling, daunting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, frustrating, unmanning, unnerving browbeating, bullying, cowing, intimidatingdepressing, saddening, weighingafflicting, tryingdampening, damping, deadeningdistressing, troublingbothering, irking, vexing, worryingdebilitating, enfeebling, undermining, weakeningfrightening, horrifying, scaring throwing cold water on emboldening, encouraging, heartening, nerving, steeling buoying (up), cheering, gladdeninganimating, enlivening, invigoratingenforcing, fortifying, reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningassuring, reassuringboosting, energizing, exciting, galvanizing, inspiring, lifting, provoking, quickening, rallying, stimulating, stirring to lower in character, dignity, or qualityfelt society as a whole has been demoralized by the widespread availability of pornography abasing, bastardizing, cankering, cheapening, corrupting, debasing, debauching, degrading, demeaning, depraving, deteriorating, lessening, perverting, poisoning, profaning, prostituting, subverting, vitiating, warping befouling, begriming, contaminating, defiling, diluting, dirtying, polluting, tainting, thinning, watering down, weakeningdescendingdisgracing, dishonoring, humbling, humiliating, shaming, taking downblemishing, damaging, defacing, destroying, flawing, harming, hurting, impairing, marring, ruining, spoiling, staining, tarnishing, wreckingdepreciating, downgrading elevating, ennobling, uplifting dignifying, exalting, honoringameliorating, amending, bettering, enhancing, enriching, improving, meliorating, perfectingclarifying, cleaning, cleansing, purifying, refining, restoringrespecting |