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Definitions: Demoralise |
DemoraliseVerb1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "demoralise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
"Demoralise" is a common misspelling or typo for: demoralize, demoralized. |
Synonyms: DemoraliseSynonyms: cast down (v), corrupt (v), debase (v), debauch (v), deject (v), demoralize (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) |
| "Demoralise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 62.50% of the time. "Demoralise" is used about 16 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) | 62.5% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 37.5% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "demoralise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 夺志 (demoralised, demoralising, Demoralize, Demoralized, Demoralizing). (various references) | ||||
Italian | demoralizzare (demoralize, lose heart). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 타락시키십시" (Demoralize). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | emoraliseday | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-m-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: misleader, misleared, moralised, remolades. | |
-2 letters: darioles, demersal, dismaler, earldoms, emeralds, emeroids, limeades, measlier, melodias, melodies, melodise, modelers, moralise, morseled, realised, remailed, remedial, remodels, remolade, resailed, seadrome, sidereal, somedeal. | |
-3 letters: admires, aediles, amidols, areoles, damosel, dariole, dealers, dearies, delimes, derails, dialers, earldom, elodeas, emailed, emerald, emerods, emeroid, isolead, leaders, leadier, limeade, loaders, loamier, mailers. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-m-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: demoralizes. | |
+2 letters: deformalizes, deglamorizes, demoralizers, dilatometers, memorialised. | |
+3 letters: comradeliness, dermatologies, dilatometries, imponderables, melodramatise, radioelements. | |
+4 letters: commercialised, formidableness, impersonalized, indemonstrable, melodramatised, melodramatises, melodramatizes, metronidazoles, overstimulated. | |
+5 letters: adrenalectomies, comradelinesses, demonstratively, deuteranomalies, electrodynamics, maladroitnesses, tatterdemalions. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 6D 6F 72 61 6C 69 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . -- --- .-. .- .-.. .. ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01101101 01101111 01110010 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e m o r a l i s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 006D 006F 0072 0061 006C 0069 0073 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38717981846778758571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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