DEMORALIZING Synonyms

• discouraging through fear

• impairing the strength and vitality

• causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

• depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action

• expressing disapproval in order to dissuade

• freeing from illusion or false belief

• destructive of morale and self-reliance

• causing consternation

• destructive of morale and self-reliance

• discouraging by hindering

• preventing realization or attainment of a desire

• becoming weaker

• the act of reducing the strength of something

• causing debilitation

• moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker

• collapse by releasing contained air or gas

• release contained air or gas from

• reduce or lessen the size or importance of

• produce deflation in

• reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices

• become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air

• lower someone's spirits; make downhearted

• make unhappy

• come to feel sad

• destroy property or hinder normal operations

• hollow out as if making a cave or opening

• corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality

• lower someone's spirits; make downhearted

• lacking in integrity

• not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

• containing errors or alterations

• touched by rot or decay

• corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality

• make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence

• place under suspicion or cast doubt upon

• alter from the original

• corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality

• lower in value by increasing the base-metal content

• corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones

• a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

• corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality

• lower someone's spirits; make downhearted