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Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary
demoralize
1. lower someone's spirits; make downhearted - These news depressed her - The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her • Syn: depress, deject, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralise • Ant: elate (for: depress) • Derivationally related forms: demoralisation (for: demoralise), demoralization, dismay (for: dismay), dejection (for: deject), depressant (for: depress) • Hypernyms: discourage • Hyponyms: chill • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s somebody - Something ----s somebody - The bad news will demoralize him 2. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality - debauch the young people with wine and women - Socrates was accused of corrupting young men - Do school counselors subvert young children? - corrupt the morals • Syn: corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect • Derivationally related forms: depravation (for: deprave), depravity (for: deprave), profanation (for: profane), debasement (for: debase), debauchee (for: debauch), debaucher (for: debauch), debauchery (for: debauch), debauch (for: debauch), demoralisation (for: demoralise), demoralization, subversion (for: subvert), perversive (for: pervert), pervert (for: pervert), corruptible (for: corrupt), corruptive (for: corrupt), corruption (for: corrupt) • Hypernyms: change, alter, modify • Hyponyms: sensualize, sensualise, carnalize, carnalise, infect, lead off, lead astray, poison, bastardize, bastardise, suborn • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s somebody - Something ----s somebody 3. confuse or put into disorder - the boss's behavior demoralized everyone in the office • Derivationally related forms: demoralization • Hypernyms: confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s somebody - Something ----s somebody
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