demoralize
melemahkan semangat
definition
verb
their rejection of the treaty has demoralized the diplomatic community
cause (someone) to lose confidence or hope; dispirit.
It is a perceptive account of life in an occupied city, in which victors and vanquished alike are corrupted and demoralized .
corrupt the morals of (someone).
example
It is you and the like of you that deprave and 'demoralize' youth and prepare criminals for the gallows.
They are helping our enemies to 'demoralize' us into giving up.
Each attack is designed to 'demoralize' our people and divide us from one another.
These unhealthy developments have led to thorough 'demoralization' in the bureaucracy, rampant indiscipline and all round inefficiency.
When confronted with a lethal and determined enemy, one has a responsibility to give short shrift to 'demoralizing' and sinister nonsense.
Instead of 'demoralizing' a people, you have brought them closer together.
Staff are 'demoralised' , not least because local councils have eroded library opening hours and consequently cut shift allowances.
I object, not to the paperwork that 'demoralises' teachers, but to the undermining of them as caring and knowledgeable professionals that it represents.
The aide admitted that the news of the killing was withheld to avoid 'demoralising' the fighters.
But at just 39 years old the family doctor is so 'demoralised' with his inability to care for his patients properly that he is leaving the profession altogether.
She is also pleased to have completed her course, having found some of the statistics modules 'demoralisingly' difficult and the reading load hard to keep up with.
The parents and the teachers tend to compare their wards with their counterparts and as a result the child is 'demoralised' in front of others.
Now, the national side, which once ruled the football world with a haughty confidence, is completely 'demoralized' and there's less than a year to prepare for the great campaign on home ground.
‘I thought I would find a company that had 'demoralised' employees, low morale,’ he said.
‘You're not far now,’ she deadpanned, setting me up for a 'demoralizing' final 3.8 miles.
Furthermore, nothing is more 'demoralizing' for a company's personnel as when they realize they have to recreate hundreds of word documents and spreadsheets.
And so I think they'll come to the realization that as difficult as our political compromise is, as tough as it is to work it out, it is much better than the continuation of this grinding, dehumanizing, 'demoralizing' conflict.
Much of the work needs effort to get started and can be 'demoralisingly' difficult to complete.
When he awoke and made the final preparations on his pack, Aaron further discovered that with sleeping bag, roll, and tent, his pack was 'demoralizingly' heavy and probably structurally unsound.
This is not just 'demoralization' ; this is a clinical depression.
A decimated and 'demoralized' staff is not an efficient one.
The poor areas may have generated more crime and disorder as a consequence of anonymity, 'demoralization' and despair.
‘People are very 'demoralized' and unhappy,’ a former administration official said.
This criticism was said to have 'demoralised' staff and caused a split between them and councillors.
The long-term economic woes have begun to have a 'demoralizing' effect on the country as a whole.
Grimy wards, with paint peeling, dust gathering on windowsills and numerous unidentified stains, frighten patients and 'demoralise' staff.
Another warden said: ‘The re-training will be pointless because the staff are all 'demoralised' .’
I want to believe that the conclusions this woman reaches about her son's future are untrue, filtered through that terrible 'demoralization' .
Alcohol as a destructive force in Apache culture is a phenomenon that dates from colonization, and it has been a byproduct of 'demoralization' and despair.
It is a perceptive account of life in an occupied city, in which victors and vanquished alike are corrupted and 'demoralized' .
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