(v. t.) To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in discipline, in courage, spirit, etc.; to weaken in spirit or efficiency.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results show that demoralization scores were associated positively with dose effect (the more brutal the experience, the higher the scores) and inversely with social supports (the higher the acknowledged presence of contemporary supports, the lower the scores).
(2) That is just a killer sequence there - totally demoralizing.
(3) At the time of the suicide most patients felt lost and angry as well as demoralized and alienated from the clinic where they had been treated.
(4) In both populations, parents' general communication correlated negatively with anxiety, depression and demoralization and positively with guilt.
(5) My overall goal is for fashion to empower women and not demoralize them through negative and sometimes false imagery.
(6) Strangio, in an email to the Associated Press, called Manning’s treatment since her 2010 arrest and subsequent time serving a 35-year sentence “demoralizing and destabilizing assaults on her health and humanity”.
(7) In its differential diagnosis, abulia, akinesia and akinetic mutism, depression, dementia, delirium, despair, and demoralization must be ruled out.
(8) The main objectives of an integrated approach include: stabilization of the individual's sense of self, establishment of interpersonal competence, and enhanced mastery over the affects of depression and demoralization.
(9) Self-report measurement strategies included a medical review of body systems, the "demoralization" scale reflecting psychological symptoms of distress, demographics, and factors that may buffer stress, specifically, social support and knowledge regarding toxic chemicals.
(10) Using a structured, self-administered questionnaire, firefighter subjects were found to be more psychologically distressed on demoralization, specific emotional distress, and perceived threat to physical health.
(11) There was a clear association between occupational prestige scores and demoralization in both sexes.
(12) Both initial and later marital relationship scores had higher correlations with later than with initial demoralization scores.
(13) Several organizational factors were identified that, if present, contributed to nurses' ability to continue or 'hang in' but if absent, contributed to despair or 'feeling demoralized'.
(14) Longitudinal correlations of specific components and aggregated scores of perceptions of husbands' behavior and of demoralization revealed significant stability.
(15) When compared with nonexposed firefighter controls (n = 22), the exposed firefighters (n = 64) had significantly higher levels of demoralization and specific emotional distress 22 months after the incident.
(16) Major depressive disorders need to be differentiated from physiological demoralizations secondary to the strains of somatic disturbances.
(17) If not resolved, the social, cognitive, and social isolation may extend into adulthood, and anxiety, depressive symptoms, alienation, self-hatred, and demoralization may result.
(18) Urinary incontinence is a common, costly and demoralizing problem among the elderly.
(19) But in this type of fatal injuries, too, the place of immediate surgical stabilization and correction of the injured spine is established today in order to help the rehabilitation and to shorten demoralizing immobilization and bed rest time.
(20) The unusual organizational arrangements of this commune, where women have achieved higher levels of equality than in most other societies, offered a laboratory-like opportunity to test the psychosocial factors imputed as a partial explanation for the higher rates of demoralization in women.
Disempower
Definition:
(v. t.) To deprive of power; to divest of strength.
Example Sentences:
(1) India’s caste system is alive and kicking – and maiming and killing | Mari Marcel Thekaekara Read more India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi , belongs to a party that is explicitly Hindu in character, while other parties exist to further the interests of, among others, India’s Muslims population as well as members of socially disempowered Dalit caste.
(2) Or you might have dads who think the court process is inherently biased against fathers, who feel disempowered and unable to pursue their case without help – so they don’t try, and the result is that they don’t have any contact with their children at all.
(3) But once he forfeits control of Air Force One, Marshall is suddenly disempowered.
(4) Those strange groups of men who feel so disempowered by any mention of feminism reveal themselves time and time again and indeed some of them really are not doing well at all.
(5) "We have warned ministers that school and college leaders are feeling demoralised and disempowered by the government's assault from all directions on the education system, and the approach it takes during the remaining negotiations will be all-important if a final agreement is to be reached."
(6) She will leave the remainers of England disempowered.
(7) In an open letter to Corbyn – the first of a stream of advice to the anticipated leader – Compass describes Labour as a 20 th -century, top-down machine that disempowered those involved.
(8) "Instead, I found it very distressing and disempowering.
(9) Many Muslim women in particular feel disempowered and not trusted by the wider, white majority.
(10) I conclude by arguing, against post-modern cynics, that a reasoned defence of the Welfare State requires a broader concept of self-sufficiency and a perspective which both acknowledges the need for help, and recognizes the extent to which the provision of help may further disempower the disadvantaged.
(11) Enterprise is about getting regulators off car-makers’ backs and disempowering meddling stakeholders, especially trade unions.
(12) However if those attitudes are at least partially stoked by very real and profound economic and social changes that have left some men feeling disempowered, marginalised, maligned and neglected, is it enough to simply demand that they suck it up and deal with it?
(13) "Sanitary conditions at the prison are calculated to make the prisoner feel like a disempowered, filthy animal.
(14) It was substantially less disempowering than others we saw."
(15) Many who work in society’s “safety net” – social workers among them – have tried since the film’s release to show that they are shoulder-to-shoulder with people who have been disempowered.
(16) It will be those who have least who will be the most impoverished and disempowered when libraries are closed.
(17) Education secretary Michael Gove has attacked universities for turning out young social workers inculcated with "idealistic left-wing dogma" who wrongly see parents as disempowered "victims of social injustice".
(18) (“Lesson one: don’t send photos of genitalia to Mary Beard.”) To say that trolls, or rapists, or domestic abusers, cannot be controlled by those they victimise does not disempower the victims: it is a reminder of who really is culpable here.
(19) The purpose of these developments however is clear: to debase and disempower Republican Political Prisoners.” The republican prisoners warned: “Those overseeing and implementing these policies would do well to use history as their guide to see where their actions will lead.” In 2012 dissident republicans shot dead a Maghaberry prison officer, David Black , while he drove along a motorway on his way to work at the prison.
(20) It is only recently that nurses are recognizing that fragmentation of the profession along these and other lines disempowers us and may result in non-nurses delineating what our practice will be.