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throwing cold water onphrasepresent participle of throw cold water on to lessen the courage or confidence ofHer parents threw cold water on her dream of becoming a poet. chilling, daunting, demoralizing, 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 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 |