Čo znamená discourage v angličtine a aká je definícia discourage?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť discourage výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

discourage Význam & definícia

0 to make someone feel less confident, enthusiastic, and positive about something, or less willing to do something:
- The thought of how much work she had to do discouraged her.
1 to prevent or try to prevent something happening or someone doing something, by making things difficult or unpleasant, or by showing disapproval:
- a campaign to discourage people from smoking
- The authorities have put tanks on the streets to discourage any protest.
2 to cause someone to feel less confident or less hopeful:
- She sometimes got discouraged about her social life, which was going nowhere, she felt.
3 to try to prevent something from happening or someone from doing something, or to have the effect of making something less likely:
- We tried to discourage him from spending so much money.
- Higher taxes could discourage business investment.
- The tough competition discourages many athletes from making a serious attempt to make the Olympic team.

Don't let me discourage you if it's what you want to do.
Her criticism had discouraged him.
Don't let her comments discourage you.
It discouraged me to hear so little enthusiasm for the project.
I don't want to discourage her - merely inject a note of realism.
We need tougher penalties to discourage miscreants.
Leaving an outside light on after dark can discourage a potential burglar.
Police fired rubber bullets to disperse the crowds and to discourage looters who ransacked shops and set fire to cars.