What's the difference between disheartening and gutting?

Disheartening


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dishearten

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dixon said that in the wake of the latest shooting, he was “disheartened but not surprised”.
  • (2) The simple answer: absolutely no.” The reticence of others to publicly support her had been disheartening at times.
  • (3) Perhaps more disheartening has been the increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics.
  • (4) Obviously, workers get disheartened and reduce their demand for work even when they need it; in other cases, the state and local authorities try to dissuade them or do not register their demand because they do not have the funds to provide the required work.
  • (5) "We are deeply disheartened about the unprecedented events taking place in the UK at the moment and which have impacted communities across the country," he said.
  • (6) Navratilova, a winner of 18 grand slam singles titles, said: “It is really disheartening to see Ray Moore offer the extremely prejudiced and very old-fashioned statements regarding women tennis players.
  • (7) Those left thoroughly disheartened by the week in politics and Monday’s Euro 2016 football disaster have been invited to reflect back on a happier time, when the Beatles were at No 1 in the charts with Paperback Writer, and England were about to lift the World Cup for the first (perhaps only) occasion.
  • (8) It sets out yet more evidence of the real-life and disheartening effects on women of the shortage of midwives."
  • (9) Bush said that the passage of HB40 has left many activists “overall probably disheartened” and “kind of tired” but determined to carry on.
  • (10) It is disheartening to see some tabloids give prominence to this nonsense.
  • (11) Yet one of the key issues and most disheartening matters for workers is the attitude of Mike Ashley , who repeatedly distances himself from current problems in the stores.
  • (12) Esteban Lasso, executive director of Canadian-based "cleft care" charity Transforming Faces, said in a statement : "It's disheartening that a major motion picture would perpetuate this negative perception and we hope that in future, birth defects and facial differences will not be used to portray 'evil' characters."
  • (13) That seemed implausible when he left Manchester United in 2004, disheartened after two and a half largely fruitless seasons.
  • (14) It is sad and disheartening that the Oscars awards show sought to use anti-Jewish stereotypes for laughs."
  • (15) So for him to be this disheartened with Moyes says a fair bit.
  • (16) To fall back into this type of conflict against itself, is disheartening and tragic.” “I’m trying to help them see past their tribalism and the fighting, to become more aware of the current issues that are effecting the entire planet, not just a small minority.
  • (17) The country’s president, Baron Waqa, told parliament after the child refugees were beaten: “I’m disheartened that the refugees are being attacked by the locals verbally and physically.” The Australian government maintains that the welfare of refugees resettled on Nauru is a matter solely for the Nauru government.
  • (18) The government proposals, which come after last month's General Synod vote against legislation to allow female bishops , have disheartened many clergy campaigning for a more inclusive church.
  • (19) But this is a radical, disheartening development in the history of the organisation, long held out as a beacon for the open, free spirit of the web as a tool for liberation.
  • (20) It’s clear the CIA was trying to play ‘keep away’ with documents relevant to an investigation by their overseers in Congress, and that’s a serious constitutional concern,” Snowden told NBC : But it’s equally if not more concerning that we’re seeing another ‘Merkel Effect,’ where an elected official does not care at all that the rights of millions of ordinary citizens are violated by our spies, but suddenly it’s a scandal when a politician finds out the same thing happens to them.” Updated at 4.09pm GMT 3.54pm GMT Brennan says Edward Snowden’s leaks have disheartened people in the intelligence community.

Gutting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gut

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some of those drugs are able to stimulate the macrophages, even in an aspecific way, via the gut associated lymphatic tissue (GALT), that is in connection with the bronchial associated lymphatic tissue (BALT).
  • (2) In contrast to L2 and L3 in L1 the mid gut runs down in a straight line without any looping.
  • (3) The goals of treatment are the restoration of normal gut peristalsis and the correction of nutritional deficiencies.
  • (4) Expressed per centimeter of gut length, total DAO activity was also enhanced by +141% in segment B (P less than 0.05 vs controls) and by +87% in segment C (P less than 0.01 vs controls) of resected rats.
  • (5) Recent studies point to the involvement of regulatory peptides in diseases of the gut and lung.
  • (6) "Gut closure" is an unlikely explanation for these findings.
  • (7) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
  • (8) ); and 3) those that multiply and produce large numbers of vegetative cells in the food, then release an active enterotoxin when they sporulate in the gut.
  • (9) The mRNA data of the developing gut correspond with previous protein data, which showed that the shorter Mr 210,000 polypeptide predominates during earlier developmental stages and the larger Mr 260,000 polypeptide appears later in the embryonic gut (Aufderheide, E., and P. Ekblom.
  • (10) The effects of intra-arterial administration of substance P upon intestinal blood flow, oxygen consumption, intestinal motor activity, and distribution of blood flow to the compartments of the gut wall were measured in anesthetized dogs.
  • (11) Agents that lower total plasma or LDL cholesterol in hypercholesterolaemic patients by interfering with cholesterol reabsorption from the gut (cholestyramine, cholestipol) or reduction of hepatic VLDL release (fibrates) do not appear to interfere with platelet hyperreactivity and do not change platelet-derived thromboxane formation.
  • (12) Females had an increased excretion of PCBs and increased accumulation in gut and gonads compared to males.
  • (13) The aim of the present study was to determine if dexamethasone treatment increased the rate of appearance in plasma of gut-derived glucose.
  • (14) The agency, which works to reduce food waste and plastic bag use, has already been gutted , with its budget reduced to £17.9m in 2014, down from £37.7m in 2011.
  • (15) No acute or chronic GVHD was seen in two patients, grade II (skin only) was seen in one patient, and grade IV (skin, liver, and gut) was seen in one patient.
  • (16) A diversity of serogroups and toxigenicity was a general finding, however, strains found in the proximal gut were also cultured from the rectum, indicating that faecal specimens would be a valid tool in investigating the role of these organisms in SIDS cases compared with healthy controls.
  • (17) Our results suggest that the increased Copro-IgE levels may be a specific consequence of the local immune response to food allergen stimulation in the gut mucosa.
  • (18) At the external wall of the host's gut, parasitic cysts of this nematode with immature stages inside were also observed.
  • (19) The results provide further in vivo evidence that ROI are causative agents in H liberation during reperfusion of the ischemic gut.
  • (20) Intravenous administration of ADS did not affect the transit, indicating the importance of the presence of ADS in the gut lumen.