dispirit

Even by the mid-1980s, activists and historians, dispirited by a lack of parliamentary political victories, had begun to compare West Germany’s liberation movement unfavorably with that in the United States.

He cannot hope to defeat Tesse, but he may wear out and dispirit his men by constant attacks.

William, like a wise general as he was, took care that the news of his accident should not dispirit his men.

Like most energetic women, a first failure did not daunt or dispirit her, it only roused her energies the more vigorously.