discourage Copy link Outline I. To deprive of courage1. expr. by means of animus (sing. or pl., as one person or more is meant), with various verbs2. exănĭmo, 1II. To deter, dissuade1. dēterreo, terreo, 22. dĕhortor, 1 • discourage: I. To deprive of courage: 1. expr. by means of animus (sing. or pl., as one person or more is meant), with various verbs: (1.) frango, frēgi, fractum, 3 (in wider sense, to depress, cast down): Join: franguntur et debilitantur animi, Cic.: also with abl., frangi animo, Cic.: (2.) infringo, 3: to d. the enemy, animos hostium infringere, Liv.: (3.) dēmitto, mīsi, missum, 3 (with animum, animos, to be d.d): Join: debilitari, animumque demittere, Cic.: also with abl., demittere se animo, Caes.: (4.) dēbĭlĭto, 1 (to enfeeble): what is there that can d. me, quid est quod animum meum frangere aut d. possit? Cic.: also, debilitari is used absol., to be d.d: d.d from the pursuit of civil law, debilitati a jure cognoscendo, Cic.: (5.) mĭnuo, ui, ūtum, 3: to d. a person, alicui animum m., Liv.: (6.) cădo, cĕcĭdi, cāsum, 3 (with animus [animi] as subject, or in abl., to be d.d): they had been d.d by disaster, cladibus (illis) animi ceciderant., Liv.: we ought not to be so d.d, non debemus ita cadere animis, Cic.: (7.) dēfĭcio, fēci, 3 (with animo, animis, to be d.d): he had not been d.d by such a disaster, animo non defecerat, tanto accepto incommodo, Caes.: (8.) despondeo, 2 (to be d.d): v. to despond. 2. exănĭmo, 1: v. to dishearten. (Other stronger expressions are, animum percellere, affligere: v. to paralyse.) Phr.: don't be d.d, timorem omitte! Cic.: the enemy were d.d, hostibus timor injectus est, Cic. II. To deter, dissuade: 1. dēterreo, terreo, 2: v. to deter. 2. dĕhortor, 1: many things d. my siding with you, multa me d. a vobis, Sall.: v. to dissuade.