Betekenis van:
discourage
to discourage
Werkwoord
- try to prevent; show opposition to
"We should discourage this practice among our youth"
Synoniemen
Hyperoniemen
to discourage
Werkwoord
- deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged
Hyponiemen
Voorbeeldzinnen
- Let's not discourage Tom.
- They tried to discourage him from going.
- She did not let failure discourage her.
- Tom doesn't want to discourage Mary.
- Don't let this discourage you from trying it again.
- I have tried to discourage him from going abroad.
- Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
- Measures to discourage tampering of exhaust aftertreatment systems
- Urging the adoption of measures to discourage withdrawal from the said Treaty;
- This Regulation is designed to create a secure legal framework and to discourage litigation.
- The presence of publicly supported measures may discourage other potential investors from providing capital.
- Therefore, the procedures should discourage listening to, or reading, complex information while driving.
- Member States should discourage retailers from using dual display before the official adoption of the conversion rate.
- The security should be at a level sufficiently high to discourage speculative applications, but not so high as to discourage those engaged in genuine commercial activity in relation to processed fruit and vegetable products.
- the risk of “crowding out”. The presence of publicly supported measures may discourage other potential investors from providing capital.