demoralize
verb (used with object)
to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of.
demoralizer
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a word derived from
demoralize.
Example Sentences
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For Texas, a close game getting turned into a blowout could be a demoralizer.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 4, 2014
Party-line critics railed that Hlasko was a "cynic and demoralizer," but a poll of Polish youth named him their favorite writer.
From Time Magazine Archive
And the latter is a great demoralizer of mind as well as body.
From Ishmael Or, In the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
Thus the sun may be a great demoralizer.
From A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Samuel Smiles
Punishment, it was said, is the real demoralizer of society; it is our jails which are the hotbeds and nurseries of crime.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 by Various
