Discourage and Terminate

Discourage

Discourage verb - To lessen the courage or confidence of.

Terminate and discourage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Terminate" instead a verb "Discourage".

Nearby Words: discouragement, discouraging

Terminate

Terminate verb - To bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point.

Discourage and terminate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Discourage" instead a verb "Terminate".

Mutual synonyms

Common collocations

someone discourage someone terminate someone
pursuit discourage pursuit terminate pursuit
humans discourage humans terminate humans
animals discourage animals terminate animals
Other words: intruders, attempts.
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