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Meanings of demoralise in English

Portuguese
corromper
Catalan
pervertir
Spanish
subvertir

Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.

      corromper
      Portuguese
      desanimar
      Catalan
      desanimar
      Spanish
      deprimir

      Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted.

        desanimar
        Usage of demoralise in English
        1
        It believes a full apology would demoralise its citizens and project weakness.
        Radio NZ
        2
        Too much politics in our food threatened to demoralise our large cities.
        T. De Witt Talmage as I Knew Him
        3
        Analysts said the move could demoralise the remaining cadres of ULFA.
        Reuters
        4
        Two or three executions of this kind usually sufficed to demoralise the enemy.
        History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume...
        5
        It hadn't struck me before, but it is a fact; I do demoralise children.
        A Dominie in Doubt
        6
        But this pay had already begun to demoralise the receivers.
        The Parisians — Volume 12
        7
        He must maintain the dignity of his office, in order not to demoralise the world.
        An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant
        8
        The police operation at Orgreave was meticulously planned to intimidate, oppress and demoralise the miners.
        The Guardian
        9
        Analysts say both sides regularly inflate casualty numbers to maintain public support and demoralise opposition fighters.
        Reuters
        10
        They will commonly demoralise and disorganise the business conduct of an affair in about a fortnight.
        The Human Machine
        11
        This pension reform should be seen as the ultimate weapon to split and demoralise his political opponents.
        The Guardian
        12
        The use of strategic bomb attacks to demoralise and murder civilians was a new sort of atrocity.
        The Guardian
        13
        He really did demoralise the Democratic party.
        The Guardian
        14
        One whose loss would demoralise team-mates to such an extent that it would almost derail their ambitions.
        Independent.ie
        15
        There were, he stated, two ways to demoralise and defeat the enemy: 'superior fire and irresistible forward movement.
        The white war: life and death on the italian front 1915-1919
        16
        He said Parad's death could demoralise Muslim rebels and derail plans to create trouble during elections this year.
        Reuters