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dishearteningverbpresent participle of dishearten to lessen the courage or confidence ofwe were disheartened by the news that our grandmother was seriously ill chilling, daunting, demoralizing, discouraging, 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 |