0 to make someone or something feel much less confident:
Losing several games in a row had completely demoralized the team.
1 to weaken the confidence of someone:
The team was tired and thoroughly demoralized.
Many people were demoralized, lost their sense of human dignity, and felt humiliated.
Dealing with noncompliant patients in these situations often becomes a time-consuming, nonproductive, demoralizing undertaking.
The facts become much less demoralizing if we conceive of the challenge from a cooperative perspective and the recognition that difficult choices must be made.
Conversely, party workers and voters on the other side of such trends may have been demoralized by early trends.
It might have provided a tonic to the home army's morale, or demoralized them with a spectacular disaster.
The resulting constant pressures and demoralizing environment extinguish many courtesies and kindnesses that make human life tolerable.
The military, the bulwark of state power, was seriously demoralized and organizationally weakened.
Therefore, it seems likely that racism and discrimination would cause children to feel helpless, demoralized, and discouraged.
