demoralise
verb
demoralise is a verb meaning “Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of demoralize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-M-O-R-A-L-I-S-E, and it appears about once in every 24 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does demoralise mean?
verb
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UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of demoralize.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce demoralise?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-demoralise.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of demoralise
- demoralises present, singular, he/she/it
- demoralising participle, present
- demoralised participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is demoralise?
Demoralise appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).