Verb:

ஒழுக்கத்தைச் சிதை, மன உரத்தைக் குலை, நம்பிக்கையை அழி,

demoralize's Usage Examples:

Marius, out of unpromising materials and a demoralized soldiery, organized a well-disciplined army, with which he inflicted on the invaders two decisive defeats, the first in 102 at Aquae Sextiae (Aix), 1 8 m.

Such ubiquity forces us to ask questions including, ' What good does it do?Czarniecki raised partisan-warfare to the dignity of a science, and by his ubiquity and tenacity demoralized and exhausted the regular armies to which he was generally opposed.

in the Synod of Sutri, sat in judgment on the impotent and demoralized papacy.

Consequently men talked of nothing save of changing the constitution, but unfortunately there was no longer an upper class accustomed to public affairs, while the lower class was thoroughly demoralized.

demoralizes valuable human and material resources, as well as having a demoralizing effect.

In the rest of the country they had not been allowed to reside in the villages, because their habits of keeping vodka-shops and lending money at usurious interest were found to demoralize the peasantry, and even in the towns their numbers and occupations had been restricted by the authorities.

Plagioclase >>But in the ensuing summer, after a terrible outbreak of plague had ravaged the crowded city, the people became thoroughly demoralized.

When the sophists are represented as conscious imposters who " poisoned and demoralized by corrupt teaching the Athenian moral character," he has, as has been seen, an easy and complete reply.

demoralizeand demoralizing elements in these festal observances, moreover, daily acquired greater ascendency.

demoralize the enemy by tossing one of the remaining sacks over the wall.

Internally, however, it was rapidly declining, the once chaste and hardy Vandals being demoralized by the fervid climate of Africa and the sinful delights of their new capital, and falling ever lower into sloth, effeminacy and vice.

Synonyms:

cast down, dispirit, depress, demoralise, deject, chill, discourage, dismay, get down,

Antonyms:

encourage, elate, dissimilate, detransitivize, focus,