as in discourages
to lessen the courage or confidence of
dispirited by the overwhelming amount of information needed to write the report
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Better solutions may exist, but the effort required to replace the ecosystem discourages change.
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The color yellow attracts yellow jackets and other pollinating insects, so the all-red design increases your chances of attracting hummingbirds and discourages bees and wasps from staking claim over the sweet nectar.
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What frustrates me is when the CTA isn’t there.
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Part of what fascinates and frustrates as regards Ginsberg is that for all of those thick anthologies, propriety forces me to concede that many of the poems simply aren’t that good.
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“Dispirits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispirits. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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