Discourages is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DISCOURAGES in dictionary:

VERB:
• DISCOURAGE, to dishearten; to depress the spirits of
• cause (someone) to lose confidence or enthusiasm
• prevent or try to prevent (something) by showing disapproval or creating difficulties
• persuade (someone) against an action
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to deprive of courage or confidenc; dishearten

Words related to DISCOURAGES

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How to use DISCOURAGES in a sentence

• Nothing beats down and discourages a man more than to feel that he is preaching to cold air and not to human folks, and to get back, when he offers sympathy, a stare.
• It discourages the advocacy of no practical policy, social, political, or economic.
• By increasing the obstacles to success, it discourages attempts to seduce the integrity of either.
• My Fathers Carriage so discourages me, that he makes me grow dull and melancholy.
• All this might perhaps be overcome, if the social prejudice which discourages woman would only reward proportionately those who surmount the discouragement.
• It discourages as needless, and indeed as presumptuous, all new discovery, considering it as an unlawful prying into things which it was the intention of God to conceal.
• Unfortunately, we propounded this monstrous and half-baked ideal to the world, and a sense of national vanity discourages us from repudiating it, although we really ought to.
• However, it is no wonder the chairman discourages it.
• It not only prevents rust, but the grease also discourages visitors and friends from handling the gun, snapping the trigger, or otherwise damaging it.
• This, indeed, happens very often, and is what discourages so many inquirers.
• It encourages and gives everything to the strong and discourages by taking everything from the weak.
• The proud Man discourages those from approaching him, who are of a mean Condition, and who most want his Assistance.
• He uses his Ministers as ill as possible, and discourages everybody that would risk their lives and fortunes with him.
• I have another personal reason that discourages me from attempting this task, or any other, besides the great reluctance that I have to being a voluminous author.
• The Church of Rome, as you know, discourages the use of the Bible by her laity, erring in the other extreme.
• The stainless purity of her private life and the attention she paid to her religious duties discourages scandal as well as vice.
• The God discourages sin, though, in myth, he is far from impeccable.
• Party passion invariably discourages patient constructive thought, and all legislation associated with it suffers in consequence.
• Raw fruits favour mastication, with its consequent advantages, whilst cooked and soft food discourages it.
• We have already said that soft cooked food discourages mastication and leads to defective teeth.
• The natural inference is that a college education in some way prevents or discourages marriage.

Similar words containing COURAGE without suffix s and without prefix dis

courage10 courages11 accourage14 encourage12 accouraged16 accourages15 courageful16 courageous13 discourage14 encouraged14 encourager13 encourages13 discouraged16 discourager15 encouragers14 courageously18 discouragers16 uncourageous15 encouragement18 overencourage19 undiscouraged18 courageousness17 discourageable20 discouragement20 encouragements19 overencouraged21 overencourages20 uncourageously20 discouragements21 courageousnesse18 courageousnesses19

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