demoralised
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]demoralised
- simple past and past participle of demoralise
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page xiii, Preface:
- In the Seventies the system was run-down and demoralised. Road transport was the future, the Underground was being 'managed for decline', and the system was filthier than the streets above.
References
[edit]- “demoralised”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.