dismalizing

Verb

dismalize (third-person singular simple present dismalizes, present participle dismalizing, simple past and past participle dismalized)

1. To make dismal.
   • And glancing through the pages of the “Lowell Offering” a year or two later, I see that I continued to dismalize myself at times, quite unnecessarily.1889, Lucy Larcom, A New England Girlhood: Outlined from Memory, page 213