Demoralize

Definitions: Demoralize

Demoralize

Verb

1. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women".

2. Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her".

Date "demoralize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references)

Note: Demoralize \De*mor"al*ize\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Demoralized; present participle verb or noun Demoralizing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Demoralize

Synonyms: cast down (v), corrupt (v), debase (v), debauch (v), deject (v), demoralise (v), deprave (v), depress (v), dismay (v), dispirit (v), get down (v), misdirect (v), pervert (v), profane (v), vitiate (v). (additional references)

Antonym: elate (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Deterioration	Pervert, prostitute, demoralize, brutalize; render vicious.
Vice	Render vicious; Adjective: demoralize, brutalize; corrupt; (degrade).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Demoralize

Specialty definitions using "demoralize": Belt. (references)

"Demoralize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Demoralize" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	85.71%	6	143,867
Lexical Verb (base form)	14.29%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	7	N/A

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Language		Translations for "demoralize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		demoralizoj (unnerve), prish moralin, prish desciplinë. (various references)

Arabic		‏فسد أخلاق فلان, ‏أضعف المعنويات (sink), ‏أربك (baffle, bamboozle, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, bother, buffalo, confound, confuse, discompose, disconcert, disorientate, embarrass, embrangle, entangle, floor, fluster, fox, fret, fuddle, gravel, molest, muckrake, mystify, nonplus, obfuscate, overwhelm, perplex, pose, put out, puzzle, ravel, show up, squirm, stop, stumble, stump, vex), ‏ثبط (chill, damp, dampen, frustrate, inhibit, inhibition, repel), ‏شوش (bedevil, befuddle, blanket, confuse, derange, disarrange, dislocate, disorganize, disrupt, disturb, dizzy, embroil, fog, fuddle, garble, gum up, hamper, jam, jumble, mire, mix up, muddle, muddy, obfuscate, obscure, outface, parasite, perplex, perturb, rattle, ravel, scramble, smudge, unhinge, unsettle). (various references)

Bulgarian		покварявам (corrupt, deprave, pervert, subvert, taint), деморализирам. (various references)

Chinese		夺志 (demoralise, demoralised, demoralising, Demoralized, Demoralizing). (various references)

Czech		demoralizovat. (various references)

Farsi		تضعیف روحیه کردن (Cow), ازروحیه انداختن . (various references)

Finnish		demoralisoida. (various references)

French		déprimer (depress, despond), démoraliser. (various references)

German		demoralisieren (corrupt, to demoralize). (various references)

Greek		σπάω το ηθικό, εξαχρειώνω (deprave), αποθαρρύνω (bar, daunt, discountenance, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, put off), διαφθείρω (corrupt, debauch, deprave). (various references)

Hebrew		לערער את �"מורל. (various references)

Hungarian		demoralizál, megront (bewitch, blight, corrupt, deprave, deteriorate, infect, pervert, pollute, seduce, to canker, to debauch, to deprave, to deteriorate, to hex, to pervert, to seduce sy, to taint, to violate, to vitiate, to voodoo, to warp, vitiate). (various references)

Indonesian		menghilangkan semangat (deject). (various references)

Italian		scoraggiare (be discouraged, daunt, deject, deter, discourage, dishearten, dispirit). (various references)

Korean		타락시키십시�" (demoralise). (various references)

Manx		cur ass cree (demoralization, depress, discourage, dishearten). (various references)

Pig Latin		emoralizeday

Portuguese		desmoralizar (debauch, palm, pervert, unman). (various references)

Romanian		dezorganiza (disarray, disorganize, disturb), deprava (debauch, degrade, deprave), demoraliza (deject, discourage, dishearten). (various references)

Russian		деморализовать (undermine the morale). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		demoralisati. (various references)

Spanish		desmoralizar. (various references)

Swedish		demoralisera (deprave). (various references)

Turkish		moralini bozmak (depress, dispirit, enervate), cesaretini kırmak (be a disincentive to, dash, daunt, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, enervate, screw up one's courage, tame, unman, unnerve), ayartmak (allure, beguile, bribe, carry away, corrupt, debauch, delude, deprave, draw in, entice, entrap, incite, instigate, intrigue, inveigle, lead astray, lead on, lure, pervert, sacret, seduce, soap down, tamper with, tempt, wile), ahlâkını bozmak (deprave, taint). (various references)

Ukranian		розбещувати (corrupt, debauch, deprave, filth, pervert, poison, pollute, prostitute, subvert, vitiate), підривати дісципліну, деморалізувати. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	perculsi. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "demoralize": demoralized, demoralizer, demoralizers, demoralizes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Demoralize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: delocalise, demoralise, Dioralyte, memoralize, nemoralis. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "demoralize" (pronounced di'mô"rulī'z)
7	-m ô" r u l ī' z	moralize.
5	-r u l ī' z	centralize, decentralize, hydrolyze, neutralize, paralyze, sterilize.
4	-u l ī' z	actualize, alkalies, analyze, annualize, brutalize, cannibalize, capitalize, caramelize, catalyze, civilize, collateralize, commercialize, compartmentalize, criminalize, crystallize, deinstitutionalize, demobilize, denationalize, departmentalize, depersonalize, destabilize, editorialize, equalize, evangelize, federalize, fertilize, fictionalize, finalize, formalize, fossilize, generalize, globalize, hospitalize, idolize, industrialize, internalize, internationalize, legalize, liberalize, localize, marginalize, materialize, memorialize, metabolize, mineralize, mobilize, monopolize, nationalize, naturalize, normalize, penalize, personalize, professionalize, radicalize, rationalize, recapitalize, regionalize, renationalize, revitalize, scandalize, serialize, socialize, specialize, stabilize, symbolize, tantalize, tranquilize, trivialize, underutilize, utilize, vandalize, verbalize, visualize.
3	-l ī' z	butterflies, creolize, fireflies, gadflies, idealize, multiplies, realize, stylize.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-m-o-r-z"
	-1 letter: melodizer, moralized.
	-2 letters: melodize, moralize, realized, remailed, remedial, remolade.
	-3 letters: damozel, dariole, diazole, earldom, emailed, emerald, emeroid, leadier, limeade, loamier, mealier, melodia, modeler, moldier, realize, remodel, reoiled.
	-4 letters: admire, aedile, aeried, amidol, areole, ariled, dealer, dearie, delime, derail, dermal, dialer, dormie, dozier, eidola, elmier, elodea, emerod, laired, lazied, lazier, leader, lieder, lizard, loader, loamed.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-m-o-r-z"
	+1 letter: deformalize, deglamorize, demoralized, demoralizer, demoralizes.
	+2 letters: deformalized, deformalizes, deglamorized, deglamorizes, demoralizers, memorialized, renormalized, temporalized.
	+3 letters: melodramatize, metronidazole.
	+4 letters: commercialized, impersonalized, melodramatized, melodramatizes, metronidazoles, overglamorized.
	+5 letters: laryngectomized.
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