Anagrams of: DISCOURAGING

• a state of dishonor

• bring shame or dishonor upon

• reduce in worth or character, usually verbally

• damage the reputation of

• a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end

• any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims

• exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for

• go on a crusade; fight a holy war

• a whip used to inflict punishment

• something causing misery or death

• a person who inspires fear or dread

• punish severely; excoriate

• whip

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• ask for and get free; be a parasite

• obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling

• used of riotously drunken merrymaking

• Any of several techniques supposed to detect and modulate "life forces" and to provide healing using various electric black boxes.

• Electronics, especially in radio technology.