"demotivate" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˌdiːˈmoʊtɪveɪt/ [US], /ˌdiːˈməʊtɪveɪt/ [UK] Forms: demotivates [present, singular, third-person], demotivating [participle, present], demotivated [participle, past], demotivated [past]
Etymology: From de- + motivate. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|de|motivate}} de- + motivate Head templates: {{en-verb}} demotivate (third-person singular simple present demotivates, present participle demotivating, simple past and past participle demotivated)
  1. (transitive) To decrease the motivation of a person or a group. Tags: transitive Derived forms: demotivator, demotivation, demotivational Translations (to decrease the motivation): demotivovat (Czech), demotiveren (Dutch), lannistaa (Finnish), viedä motivaatio [with-ablative] (Finnish), démotiver (French), demotivieren (German), demotivare (Italian), demotywować [imperfective] (Polish), zdemotywować [perfective] (Polish), desmotivar (Portuguese), демотиви́ровать (demotivírovatʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Russian)

Inflected forms

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        "(transitive) To decrease the motivation of a person or a group."
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          "sense": "to decrease the motivation",
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          "sense": "to decrease the motivation",
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          "sense": "to decrease the motivation",
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          "sense": "to decrease the motivation",
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to decrease the motivation",
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to decrease the motivation",
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to decrease the motivation",
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      "sense": "to decrease the motivation",
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "to decrease the motivation",
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    {
      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "to decrease the motivation",
      "word": "demotivieren"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "to decrease the motivation",
      "word": "demotivare"
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      "sense": "to decrease the motivation",
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      "sense": "to decrease the motivation",
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      "sense": "to decrease the motivation",
      "word": "desmotivar"
    },
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      "roman": "demotivírovatʹ",
      "sense": "to decrease the motivation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "демотиви́ровать"
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