démoraliser
French, verb/de.mɔ.ʁa.li.ze/
démoraliser is spelled D-É-M-O-R-A-L-I-S-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 65,791st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Démoraliser is a French verb meaning “to render immoral; to immoralize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Éloigner de la loi morale”.
What does démoraliser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to render immoral; to immoralize
- 2
to demoralize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Éloigner de la loi morale. 2. Priver de la force morale. 3. Faire perdre son caractère moral à.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of démoraliser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- démoralisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- démoralisé participle past
- démoralise first-person indicative present
- démoralises indicative present second-person
- démoralisons first-person indicative plural
- démoralisez indicative plural present
- démoralisent indicative plural present
- démoralisais first-person imperfect indicative
- démoralisait imperfect indicative singular
- démoralisions first-person imperfect indicative
- démoralisiez imperfect indicative plural
- démoralisaient imperfect indicative plural
- démoralisai first-person historic indicative
- démoralisas historic indicative past
- démoralisa historic indicative past
- démoralisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce démoraliser?
- /de.mɔ.ʁa.li.ze/
- \de.mɔ.ʁa.li.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to démoraliser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is démoraliser in French?
démoraliser appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).