What is "dishearten"

Usage examples of "dishearten".

He wanted to slow the British work, to dishearten the sappers and, by such delaying tactics, force Wellesley to send forage parties far into the countryside where they would be prey to the Mahratta horsemen who still roamed the Deccan Plain.

But the old sheriff fell face forward in the dust with a bullet through his heart, and the Laramie gang swept on into the desert, feeding their dust to their hurriedly mounted and disheartened pursuers.

Sacrificing the monkeys had been a difficult, disgusting, and disheartening task.

The things Scaramouche said to you may have been calculated to create that impression, perhaps to dishearten any opposition.

However disheartening the successive incidents may have been in which the Boers were able to inflict heavy losses upon us and to renew their supplies of arms and ammunition, it was none the less certain that their numbers were waning and that the inevitable end was steadily approaching.

Disheartened, Bradley determined to turn back toward the fort, as he already had exceeded the time decided upon by Bowen Tyler and himself for the expedition.

Jimmy Hunt openly rejoiced, feeling that Carrots had got his deserts at last, but Theodore was troubled and disheartened over the matter.

I have seen in Ida Mayhew and her father, is proof to me that there is a good God above all the chaos around me, which I cannot understand and which at times disheartens me.

Disheartened by the grisly spectacle of the dying fiends and by the apparent desertion of their leader, Slayer, the last warriors did not put up much of a fight.

The negative news disheartened the hostlers, who quietly posted guards.

The Soviets were shocked and disheartened to discover that the editorial positions of the New York Times did not accurately reflect the sentiments of the American people.

Cold to the bone, exhausted, disheartened, the deputies and patrolmen and volunteers had trooped back to the ice arena parking lot.

Then as he looked back at the retreating warriors and their king, he realized that it must have been the range of the crossbows that had disheartened them.

It is a case of disheartening atony for which there is no possible cure.

CHAPTER VI THE PASSING OF NEW FRANCE AND THE DREAM OF ITS REVIVAL The readers who have through these chapters been companions of Champlain, La Salle, Joliet, Marquette, and others in the discovery of the mighty rivers and the conquest of the mighty vastnesses of the new world will have, if they continue, yet before them even harder and more disheartening ventures, as La Salle himself had that April day in 1682, when he turned from the column which he had planted in sight of the Gulf of Mexico, four thousand miles from the Cape of Labrador, and began to drive his canoes up the river which he had traced forever, if too tortuously, on the maps of the earth.