Scott's Fabian policy will demoralize their armies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference

It was the final touch needed to demoralize the hazers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference

But I do think that personal attacks demoralize the base.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2008] Reference

The first hot spell would demoralize the trade altogether.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apple Growing] Reference

Washington -- would demoralize the society beyond purification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

I mean, certainly, they didn't want to demoralize their troops.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 12, 2006] Reference

The kindliness and indulgence that save some children demoralize others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

And this was a deliberate tactic on the part of Giap to demoralize the French.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remembering Vietnam's Battle Of Dien Bien Phu] Reference

The goal: divide, demoralize and destroy the new government's ability to rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2004] Reference

DNC chair Howard Dean says a fight to the convention could demoralize the party.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2008] Reference

The roving, uncertain life of a soldier has a tendency to harden and demoralize most men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference

That would only embolden the enemy, dissuade our friends and -- and demoralize our troops.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2007] Reference

And of all habits that tend to demoralize a man, this one of dead-beat borrowing is the worst.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of Dodd] Reference

Her acts are turned into "propo" videos designed to rouse the reb els and demoralize the Capitol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children's Books] Reference

Widespread practice of simple sabotage will harass and demoralize enemy administrators and police.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simple Sabotage Field Manual] Reference

This, if tolerated much longer, will demoralize even the best of men and render the regiment worthless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference

The fellow would really demoralize the caravan now -- even infect the big saurians -- cause a stampede.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Weakling] Reference

Habitual violation of prescribed rules, which we bind ourselves to observe, must demoralize the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

They demoralize the conservative base and make it harder to recruit topnotch candidates to run next year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Stop On The ‘V’-Train] Reference

They teach our negroes to steal, they sell them liquor, they do everything to corrupt and demoralize them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Exposure to fire such as theorists had told us would demoralize any army is merely a part of the day's work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Emma Gees] Reference

This might tend to barbarize, demoralize, and exasperate the whole mass and produce most deplorable consequences.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

But the death of their leader did not demoralize the Greeks -- it only made them more reckless and more desperate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference

Democrats are now fearful that if they cave it will demoralize that base, and further handicap them in midterm races.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Democrats Can't Win on Taxes] Reference

Meade's defeat would lose Washington, leave the heart of the North open, and demoralize the only army in that section.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

But all that could demoralize, and I may say intimidate a soldier, was being enacted, and he not allowed to participate.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference

The mortar fire was effective in the sense that it tended to demoralize the enemy, but its material effect was very small.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference

Depressed, I lounged around in my bathrobe until he finished class, then waded through rush-hour traffic to demoralize myself.    From Wordnik.com.  ['TUTORING' RICH KIDS COST ME MY DREAMS] Reference

Mr. Su á rez's death is likely to further demoralize the FARC, whose ranks in recent years have been decimated by desertions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colombia Kills Guerrilla Chief] Reference

He wants to bankrupt this country, demoralize us, as well as have us do things that motivate people to join his radical movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2009] Reference

And that they should be able to demoralize and to make the Democrats, and (UNINTELLIGIBLE) ... if you speak up, you're unpatriotic.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2003] Reference

Yet they believed that by inflicting maximum casualties on our forces, they would demoralize our nation and make America tire of war.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2006] Reference

For a moment I thought that the surprise would be complete, for our sudden appearance seemed likely to completely demoralize the enemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference

He saw that excesses were likely to demoralize his army, and so render it unfit to meet the legions which it must sooner or later encounter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference