discourage
IPA: dɪskˈɝɪdʒ
noun
- (rare) Lack of courage
verb
- (transitive) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.
- (transitive) To persuade somebody not to do (something).
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Examples of "discourage" in Sentences
- Naturally, the Bush administration indicated that they would "discourage" plans for any such cartel.
- Instead the House adopted the gun lobby agenda that nothing should ever be done to "discourage" gun ownership and possession.
- While urging Eisenhower to "discourage" fraternization, the president was more concerned about appearances than actual behavior.
- In the 1970s, King Bhumibol Adulyadej coined the term to discourage indebtedness caused by overinvestment and overconsumption in rural areas.
- Obama specifically referred to the "possibility of fees for transactions that we want to discourage, that is one of the ideas that is going to be working its way through the process."
- Of course oil flacks like Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma would argue that imposing additional costs and exposing oil companies to uncapped liability would "discourage" this kind of drilling.
- And in terms of the last point that you made which is the possibility of fees for transactions that we want to discourage, that is one of the ideas that is going to be working its way through the process.
- And that which can begin to discourage is to begin to lose, and, therefore, he should guard against small combats and not permit them unless he can engage in them with the greatest advantages and certain hope of victory: he ought not to engage in guarding passes where he cannot employ all his army: he ought not to engage in guarding towns except those which, if lost, would of necessity cause his own ruin, and in those that he does guard so organize himself that if faced with the possibility of siege, he can with the guards and the army employ all his strength, and ought to leave the other places undefended: For whenever something is lost which is abandoned but the army remains intact, he neither loses reputation in the war nor the hope of winning it.
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