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. 

Mr Bapela said the students were "demoralised" because of a lack of facilities, text books and other equipment.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Mgr Warduni talks about a "demoralised" population, victim of "party and ethnic interests".    From Wordnik.com.  [Spero News] Reference

Israel's Shin Bet security agency, who told US officials that "demoralised" Fatah officials in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

Iraqi war hero's famous eve-of-battle speech 'demoralised' British troops, claims fellow soldier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

Media attention had made staff "demoralised" and feel as though they were "the victims of the story", he added.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News - Home] Reference

The reports that the army of the Potomac is much "demoralised" by the attitude taken by the Democratic party are confirmed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreign and Colonial News] Reference

There was some merriment in the House when Lalu Prasad cited the example of his cricketer-son to point out how IPL had "demoralised" young cricketers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News Online - Express Indian] Reference

That leaves you demoralised and thirsty at the same time.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

The Turks were beaten, but they were by no means demoralised.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference

All of this means that the enemy gets demoralised and sickened.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference

His sunny nature becomes serious and he looks quite demoralised.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Historical development and experience with water treatment] Reference

After a demoralised Pakistan side had lost the final Test Saeed said.    From Wordnik.com.  [England want Pakistan one-day series to go ahead despite betting storm] Reference

If corruption had demoralised Republicans, fear of a repetition of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

Kitty, confounded and demoralised, stammered out that she had forgotten.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference

I turned and left the farmyard, too demoralised even to ask my questions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moor]

Ever since that letter came from your father, you have been utterly demoralised.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference

A mere handful of such -- amassers, let us say -- have demoralised the art market.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collectors] Reference

The labour market was the parish, and this was completely disorganised and demoralised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference

The soldiers in hiding below, who have become somewhat demoralised by the accuracy of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference

The West Indies looked completely demoralised, even though they did fight back belatedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal for 14 December 2000] Reference

But the Labour party was, and is, deeply demoralised and disenfranchised at its grassroots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labour leadership race: Good for the candidates, bad for the party] Reference

She'd lost control of what was said about her, she'd lost her confidence and she was demoralised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smith's claims call Brown's political judgement into question] Reference

Cutting authors 'earnings from an already diminished and demoralised service would be the last straw.    From Wordnik.com.  [How worried are you about Public Lending Right?] Reference

Germans opposite us were completely demoralised, and that with a small push we should capture Lens itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion] Reference

She had been weakened into dependence by excess of sympathy, and now was being demoralised for want of any.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heavenly Twins] Reference

It was a wild scene of confusion and disorder, of demoralised retreat and rout; and then something happened.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tory Maid] Reference

She dashed into the house, and found a demoralised kitchen-maid calling incoherently for help down the telephone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 14, 1917] Reference

Some of their vedettes could be seen hovering about, but they were evidently too demoralised to approach us closely.    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

At the same time social mobility has decreased, whilst ceaseless new initiatives have demoralised committed teachers.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

If you want to get a sense for how demoralised Labour MPs are at the moment read John Kampfner in The Telegraph today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

His men becoming demoralised, Hassan withdrew amidst the ferocious taunts of the Spaniards, who had escaped almost unscathed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference

The Tory party has been so demoralised by three successive defeats that they have forgotten what they are supposed to stand for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference

How am I supposed to support and already demoralised workforce that have been forced to accept a pay rise well below the average.    From Wordnik.com.  [The retreat from Scutari] Reference

Major ---- told me yesterday that the best troops in the world would get so completely demoralised under a shelling like that we gave the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference

Antwerp, it demoralised the civilian population somewhat effectively, which perhaps was the desired end, but the military results were nil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference