Discourage and Leads

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Discourage

Discourage verb - To lessen the courage or confidence of.
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Leads is an antonym for discourage.
Nearby Words: discouragement, discouraging

Leads

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Discourage is an antonym for leads in topics: influence, guide physically.
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  • The Office (US): In order to discourage the salespeople's bad attitudes, Michael "hands out" the new leads to every other employee instead, who in turn use the leads to bribe, blackmail, and/or taunt the salespeople.
    Source: Exact Words / Live-Action TV
  • Crying Wolf Being shot at by "surrendering" enemies tends to discourage soldiers from accepting genuine surrenders, and being ambushed by "corpses" similarly leads to them making sure that any dead bodies they come across are, in fact, dead (which, it bears mention, is also illegal).
    Source: Crying Wolf
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Leads and Discourage. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/discourage/leads
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