Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of encouragement; discourage.
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Examples
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The only reason I see to charge 60 bucks a bottle is to disencourage the guy to drink the whole thing at once (as we do here) and have a major headache the following day (as we sure do here as well).
The Secret to Success: Crawling Before You Can Walk BikeSnobNYC 2010
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I've seen pics, but they were heavily watermarked to disencourage their dissemination.
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Men were ever ready to carry on sentimental adventures whenever they found opportunities, and the ladies of the time were not disposed to disencourage them altogether.
Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan Various 1880
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Fan! the world has acknowledged you my offspring, and I will disencourage you no more.
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 Fanny Burney 1796
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Several of the more outrageously PC Chief Constables and QUANGOS like the ISA should be abolished within a week after the next change of government, just to make an example of them to disencourage the others.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
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