Dishearten: alternatives and connections

To depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to overcome wi…

To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort.

To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.

To depress with fear; to daunt the spirits or courage of; to overawe.

To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to…

To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate.

To cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten.

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The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the st…

To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes.

To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.

a state in which all hope is lost or absent; "in the depths of despair"; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute"; "courage…

To give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to ta…

Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope.

To discourage; to deject.

To refuse to countenance, or give the support of one's approval to; to give one's influence against; to restrain by cold treatment; to…

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