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Meanings of demoralize in English
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Examples for "corrupt"
Examples for "corrupt"
1
Power tends to corrupt, he said memorably, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
2
Protesters blame a corrupt political system that shares power among sectarian parties.
3
They are corrupt; they are base; they are cowardly; they are cruel.
4
They pay this corrupt money to thugs, and then violence takes place.
5
Research suggests mail voting would produce a near-negligible number of corrupt votes.
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The profane words are but a speck in a sea of monosyllables.
2
It was the profane heathen, of whom Israel learned to worship idols.
3
The profane is judged by all; but the other by a few.
4
August 22:-Veryprofane and vindictive in his accusations towards the prison officials.
5
The rough ashlar is the profane, the perfect ashlar is the initiate.
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I have good reasons for mentioning his name: He's a pervert, Travis.
2
The Novels by Eminent Hands do not pervert the originals they exaggerate.
3
You probably think I'm some pervert out to take advantage of you.
4
Matzneff has said Springora was misrepresenting him as a pervert and abuser.
5
He had always sought to pervert and discredit the word of God.
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However, certain viruses can subvert the immune response to establish persistent infections.
2
Poet'Most organisations understand that they have to subvert their own received reality.
3
Romantic comedies have certain rules they either have to follow or subvert.
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But the National embrace the obvious the more effectively to subvert it.
5
Viruses activate inflammasomes but then subvert resulting inflammatory responses to avoid elimination.
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The chances for a debauch looked peaked and slim in the extreme.
2
Night comes and robs me of the finish of the unbridled debauch.
3
The unfortunate governor's ukase had precipitated a general debauch for all hands.
4
The Maalem rose at last, somewhat unsteadily after his debauch of kief.
5
It is splendid flesh, but he has been on a long debauch.
1
It is a mistake to suppose love only elevates; it can debase.
2
At every point of contact with our labor system, they debase it.
3
The indignant heart repels a conviction that is believed to debase it.
4
And I never, never can debase my nature to change that love.
5
Such men,-orwomen,-mayhardly, perhaps, debase themselves with the more vulgar vices.
1
Small-pox does not vitiate the blood of a people; this disease does.
2
It is as apt to vitiate the system as to protect it.
3
Encroaching winter and ineffective international commitment may vitiate the humanitarian and redevelopment efforts.
4
Civilization tends to corrupt men, as large towns tend to vitiate the air.
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Tithes, politics, or something wrong in principle, vitiate every Irish murder.
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Should we clear it of bugs or use it to misdirect them?
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Your energy levels are likely to be high, but you could misdirect them.
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Don't think you are going to misdirect us with that sort of thing.
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It is Mr. Lance whom you thought to misdirect to this solitary house.
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It was a gambit, a false flag to misdirect the rest of us.
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It believes a full apology would demoralise its citizens and project weakness.
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Too much politics in our food threatened to demoralise our large cities.
3
Analysts said the move could demoralise the remaining cadres of ULFA.
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Two or three executions of this kind usually sufficed to demoralise the enemy.
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It hadn't struck me before, but it is a fact; I do demoralise children.
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Such attacks are apt to deprave both the assailant and the assailed.
2
In the latter, many men's wits spent to deprave the wit of one.
3
Crowd bad men and women together, and they corrupt and deprave each other.
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If my book is a romance, the fault lies with those who deprave mankind.
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Such engagements are always dangerous; sometimes they deprave the character of the man or woman.'
Usage of demoralize in English
1
To defeat an army, you must demoralize and throw it into disorder.
2
Everything was done to demoralize, frighten and overawe judges, witnesses and jurors.
3
The fear exists that the fall of the captain will demoralize the rest.
4
We indulge in feelings which tend to demoralize the whole character.
5
In plain English, he wishes to demoralize only the higher classes of society.
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He was fighting to demoralize the rush, and drive terror into savage hearts.
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Such sums were so staggering that it might demoralize Sheila's base.
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Mass rapes, often to demoralize enemies, seem to take place everywhere, the authors found.
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Unreasonable ones actually slow down the process and demoralize the crap out of people.
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The slime of politics and the smell of flaxseed unite to demoralize the man.
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The slightest reaction by the defense may demoralize the attack.
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A decided victory over the chief at the start would demoralize all the forces.
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The effect of constant complaints was to demoralize us and make our work harder.
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The click seemed to demoralize the operator, who became unable to continue her efforts.
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I would not have the army know-itwould demoralize them.
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You must accept the truth that you demoralize any race whom you have subjugated.
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