Discourage vs Impede - What's the difference?
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To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.
* Bible, Col. iii. 21
To persuade somebody not to do something.
* Abraham Lincoln
Lack of courage
to get in the way of; to hinder
Discourage is a related term of impede.
As verbs the difference between discourage and impede
is that discourage is to extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject while impede is to get in the way of; to hinder.As a noun discourage
is lack of courage.discourage
English
Verb
(discourag)- Don't be discouraged by the amount of work left to do: you'll finish it in good time.
- Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged .
- Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.