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单词 demoralize
释义
demoralize
verb[T]
(UKusuallydemoralise)
uk
/dɪˈmɒr.ə.laɪz/us
/dɪˈmɔːr.ə.laɪz/
to make someone or somethingfeelmuch lessconfident:
使泄气，使垂头丧气
Losing severalgamesin arowhadcompletelydemoralized theteam.连续输掉数场比赛使全队上下彻底泄了气。
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(Definition ofdemoralizefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

demoralize| American Dictionary

demoralize
verb[T]
us
/dɪˈmɔr·əˌlɑɪz,di-,-ˈmɑr-/
toweakentheconfidenceof someone:
Theteamwastiredandthoroughlydemoralized.
(Definition ofdemoralizefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdemoralize

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Many people were demoralized, lost their sense of human dignity, and felt humiliated.
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Dealing with noncompliant patients in these situations often becomes a time-consuming, nonproductive, demoralizing undertaking.
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The facts become much less demoralizing if we conceive of the challenge from a cooperative perspective and the recognition that difficult choices must be made.
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Conversely, party workers and voters on the other side of such trends may have been demoralized by early trends.
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It might have provided a tonic to the home army's morale, or demoralized them with a spectacular disaster.
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The resulting constant pressures and demoralizing environment extinguish many courtesies and kindnesses that make human life tolerable.
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The military, the bulwark of state power, was seriously demoralized and organizationally weakened.
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Therefore, it seems likely that racism and discrimination would cause children to feel helpless, demoralized, and discouraged.
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More seriously they demoralized staff whose constant financial vigilance was essential to economy.
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Erring too far toward centralization will prove stifling, demoralizing, demotivating, and disempowering.
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This results in diminished relationship and demoralizes both patient and health professional.
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In applied linguistics, the questioning of unity is usually construed through objections to autonomous monolingual language policies imposed on a variety of hierarchically demoralized and subjugated linguistic minorities.
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The prospect of being unemployed and of being subjected to a new war, in a word the terrible uncertainty of the current situation, has a strongly demoralizing effect.
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Such activities would be a demoralizing public spectacle, analogous to tolerating the starvation on the public streets of poor wretches who had gambled unwisely with their lives in other ways.
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Radical pro-market reforms are typically introduced in response to economic crises when organized labour resistance is demoralized by high unemployment and the absence of viable alternatives.
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