Discourages vs Discouragest - What's the difference?
discourages | discouragest |
(discourage)
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
As verbs the difference between discourages and discouragest
is that discourages is third-person singular of discourage while discouragest is archaic second-person singular of discourage.discourages
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Verb
(head)discourage
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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.