| 单词 | demoralize |
| 释义 | demoralize (once / 1609 pages) v If something demoralizes you, it makes you feel bad or hopeless. When your soccer team was trounced by the last-place team in the league, the loss seemed to demoralize everyone, from players to coaches to fans. Demoralize can also mean what it looks like, "to remove the morals of." For example, parents worry that R-rated movies will demoralize their children. In other words, they fear kids will lose their sense of what's right and wrong if they see glamorous actors indulging in bad behavior. WORD FAMILYdemoralize: demoralisation, demoralization, demoralized, demoralizes, demoralizing+/demoralization: demoralizations/demoralizing: demoralizingly USAGE EXAMPLESIn 1884, Harvard tried to ban it for being “brutal, demoralizing to teams and spectators, and extremely dangerous.” The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) The Cougars began the year 0-2, with a demoralizing opening loss to Eastern Washington at home. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) Maybe potential buyers feared that outbidding a charismatic founder would win them a demoralized and devalued company. Wall Street Journal(Dec 23, 2016) 1v lower someone's spirits; make downhearted The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper cast down, deject, demoralise, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down elate, intoxicate, lift up, pick up, uplift fill with high spirits; fill with optimism chill depress or discourage discourage deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged 2v corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality Syn|Hypo|Hyper corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate carnalise, carnalize, sensualise, sensualize debase through carnal gratification infectcorrupt with ideas or an ideology lead astray, lead offteach immoral behavior to poisonspoil as if by poison bastardise, bastardizechange something so that its value declines; for example, art forms subornincite to commit a crime or an evil deed alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 3v confuse or put into disorder the boss's behavior demoralized everyone in the office Syn|Hyper demoralise bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly |
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