Verb (used with object), : The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry. ,We were so demoralized by that one wrong turn that we were lost for hours.    From Dictionary.com. 

Never fear; the sky falling will demoralise our enemies!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Visit to the State Department] Reference

They occupy the land and the women, they demoralise and colonise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rape, murder and general violence in ‘peaceful’ military occupations « Womanvsfeminist’s Blog] Reference

This seemed to demoralise every one, and they all commenced to retire.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

State and demoralise a certain section of the population, are set out.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Was it commissioned by a rival team to demoralise them before a big game?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twins!] Reference

"They should not demoralise her by issuing fatwas on her dresses," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sania Mirza] Reference

Caswallon had told him his theory of the Aenir plan to demoralise the clans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawk Eternal]

Popular culture has striven to demoralise American culture since before Reagan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Language and that “controversial” Arizona immigration law] Reference

National Congress campaign to demoralise the apartheid government in the 1980's.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It intends to demoralise officers with any thinking substance between their ears.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Ex Traffic Biker Writes: « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

He accused the government of using the courts "to demoralise members of MK and the ANC".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The offences were meant to destabilise, demoralise and disadvantage the liberation forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"This kind of bickering only serves to further demoralise an already demoralised service.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Or was it the usual method of targeting women to demoralise and denigrate the rival troops?.    From Wordnik.com.  [August 2006] Reference

“A few of these prominent liberals who are trying to demoralise the country,” she says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rich, White & Stupid | Living the Liminal] Reference

The actions were meant to destabilise, demoralise and disadvantage the ANC, the applicants said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Thus we can perhaps demoralise his warriors and take considerably more of them man they can of us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storm Bringer]

Apparently, to have released the name would have been to 'demoralise our troops on the front line'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exclusive: Newsnight "Revelations" Mr Crick Wrong] Reference

The quickest way to kill any organisation is to demoralise, insult and demotivate their salesforce.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MASSEY REPORT INTO INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS WALES] Reference

Contact with one of these well-meaning persons, even for a few days, will demoralise a whole nursery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nervous Child] Reference

"The aim of the punishment seems to destroy, demoralise and humiliate comrades and not correct and build.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Different standards adopted with rural correspondents can be quite effective to confuse and demoralise them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press] Reference

Burger had intended to "offend, demoralise or cause harm" to anyone, and had adhered to its code of conduct.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

This would depress and demoralise the private sector and the required growth would be impossible to achieve.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

She did not raise this to demoralise delegates, but to highlight those areas in which leadership was needed.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The aim of the punishment seems to be to destroy, demoralise and humiliate comrades and not correct and build.    From Wordnik.com.  [STUART COMMISSION REPORT] Reference

Demobilise and demoralise popular forces, by keeping the transition process complicated, prolonged and obscure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contents] Reference

He declined to project a percentage pass rate for 1993, noting that premature speculation might demoralise pupils.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

For thus they demoralise their women, who might be kept in the way of right by self-respect and by a sense of duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

Such claims were totally uncalled for and served only to demoralise honest, service-oriented members of the SA Police.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The aim of the spoilers was to demoralise the ANC's supporters and disrupt its efforts to reconstitute itself organisationally.    From Wordnik.com.  [AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS NATIONAL GENERAL COUNCIL 2005] Reference

Mkhize said he believed the appointment of the commission was a plot to demoralise the ANC in the province, in particular in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

He said the aim of the blast had been to demoralise the ANC on the 70th annivesary of its existence and also to bring home to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It's chicken feed compared to other fields, but so as to look "fair" cuts are made that will devastate and demoralise for a generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: Stephen Fry, British Polymath: A Twinterview] Reference

"This will further demoralise police officials who are already dangerously estranged from SA Police Service management and the government.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

'Corruption is not a valid reason to demoralise these people.    From Wordnik.com.  [TrinidadExpress Today's News] Reference