Discourage

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  • transitive verb. To deprive of confidence, hope, or spirit.
  • transitive verb. To dissuade or deter (someone) from doing something.
  • transitive verb. To try to prevent by expressing disapproval or raising objections.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Want of courage, cowardice.
  • To deprive of, or cause to lose, courage; dishearten; depress in spirit; deject; dispirit.
  • To lessen or repress courage for; obstruct by opposition or difficulty; dissuade or hinder from: as, to discourage emigration; ill success discourages effort; low prices discourage industry.
  • To lose courage.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Lack of courage; cowardliness.
  • transitive verb. To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage
  • transitive verb. To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To take away or reduce the courage of.
  • verb. To persuade somebody not to do something.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior
  • verb. try to prevent; show opposition to
  • verb. deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged
    • Word Usage
    "In the 1970s, King Bhumibol Adulyadej coined the term to discourage indebtedness caused by overinvestment and overconsumption in rural areas."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    encourage  
    cross-reference
    deter  dissuade  restrain  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    advise  counsel  disapprove  rede  reject  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    cast down  deject  demoralise  demoralize  depress  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    burrage  courage  encourage  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    afflict  anticipate  avert  awe  bar  
    verb-form
    discouraged  discourages  discouraging  
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