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dishearten

UK/dɪsˈhɑː.tən//dɪsˈhɑɹ.tən/

dishearten verb: to discourage someone by removing their enthusiasm or courage.

Verb

dishearten (third-person singular simple present disheartens, present participle disheartening, simple past and past participle disheartened)

  1. (transitive) To discourage someone by removing their enthusiasm or courage.
    • The repeated failures began to dishearten the team.
    • Do not let criticism dishearten you.
    Synonyms:
    discourage
    Antonyms:
    hearten, encourage

dishearten meaning in Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada and Thai

dishearten in Bengali

নিরুৎসাহিত করা, মনোবল ভেঙে দেওয়া, হতাশ করা

dishearten in Malayalam

dispirit, discourage, demoralize
ഭഗ്നോത്സാഹമാക്കുക, മനസ്സിടിക്കുക, മനസ്സുമടുപ്പിക്കുക, നിരാശപ്പെടുത്തുക, നിരുത്സാഹപ്പെടുത്തുക, മാനസികമായി തളത്തുക

dishearten in Kannada

ಎದೆಗೆಡು, ಎದೆಗುಂದು, ಎದೆಗಳೆ, ಎದೆಬಿರಿ, ಎರ್ದೆಗೆಡು, ಎರ್ದೆಗಿಡು

dishearten in Thai

discourage someone by removing their enthusiasm or courage
บั่นทอนจิตใจ

Synonyms of dishearten

Antonyms

Forms of dishearten

third-person singular presentdisheartens
present participledisheartening
past participledisheartened
pastdisheartened

Origin of dishearten

From dis- + hearten.

Words formed from dishearten

Words that rhyme with dishearten

Questions about dishearten

What does dishearten mean?
Dishearten means to discourage someone by removing their enthusiasm or courage.
What is dishearten in Bengali?
Dishearten in Bengali is নিরুৎসাহিত করা, মনোবল ভেঙে দেওয়া, হতাশ করা. See Dishearten meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is dishearten?
Dishearten is a verb.
How do you pronounce dishearten?
Dishearten is pronounced /dɪsˈhɑː.tən/ (UK).
What is the past tense of dishearten?
The past tense of dishearten is disheartened.

Words near dishearten in the dictionary

  1. dishdashes
  2. dishdashi
  3. dishdashis
  4. disheart
  5. dishearted
  6. dishearten
  7. disheartened
  8. disheartenedly
  9. disheartener
  10. dishearteners
  11. disheartenest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dishearten (page history and authors); Dishearten (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dishearten (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); dishearten (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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