Deter; dishearten

Usage examples of discourage.

Lest, however, he might again fall into the hands of the raider, he discouraged Abdul Mourak in the further prosecution of his pursuit, assuring the Abyssinian that Achmet Zek commanded a large and dangerous force, and also that he was marching rapidly toward the south.

Even in her worst moments on Amabile or in her most discouraging moments of search, she had not been this helpless.

They might hit us again before we reach Anaheim, and I want to discourage them from trying.

I could make my science useful, because the answers given by the numerical figures are often so obscure that I have felt discouraged, and I very seldom tried to make any use of my calculus.

Most antiabortion activists, for example, have openly discouraged legislative allies from even pursuing those compromise measures that would have significantly reduced the incidence of the procedure popularly known as partial-birth abortion, because the image the procedure evokes in the mind of the public has helped them win converts to their position.

When it is considered that many amateur writers have been discouraged from becoming competitors, and that few, if any, of the professional authors can afford to write for nothing, and, of course, have not been candidates for the honorary prize at Drury Lane, we may confidently pronounce that, as far as regards NUMBER, the present is undoubtedly the Augustan age of English poetry.

Or perhaps they foresaw the bacchanalian rite of spring break at Myrtle Beach, and tried reaching across the centuries to discourage a very different type of hajj.

If Cranston had dropped in more often, Weston could have asked him to discourage Kelford from the incessant practice on the billiard table but Cranston had apparently lost all interest in the hunt for an unknown murderer called the Blur.

They returned to Wrentham in September 1916 deeply discouraged by the indifferent reception they had been given on their summer Chautauqua tour.

For great distances in all directions rugged hills and arid stretches of dead sea bottom discourage intercourse with them, and since there is practically no such thing as foreign commerce upon warlike Barsoom, where each nation is sufficient to itself, really little has been known relative to the court of the Jeddak of Kaol and the numerous strange, but interesting, people over whom he rules.

Lily advised against her better judgment, but Alden was so happily energized at the moment when he had been sloping around the house so dispiritedly for weeks even as he acted at keeping busy making plans and rummaging in the barn for agrarian implements to polish and sharpen and balance, that Lily could not bring herself to discourage him now.

Sergeant Doakes would do something or other to discourage my hobby, and I had thought long and hard about what to do when he did.

But as her mother and she sat in the crowded waiting room hour after hour--because of the war doctors were scarce--she felt discouraged.

Betrothees would head out, and Nada would try to discourage Dolph from coming along, while Electra would encourage him.

Holmes liked to sharpen their wits against each other, Fields doing what he could to discourage them.