"soul-destroying" meaning in English

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          "text": "War is a soul-destroying experience for soldiers: you're never the same easy-going person after you've killed.",
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        {
          "text": "The daily rat race is soul-destroying: you soon give up all aspirations and just try to survive the boredom.",
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        {
          "ref": "1916, Friedrich von Hügel, The German Soul, pages 183–184",
          "text": "The results of such excessive concentration and production are, sooner or later, huge, soul-destroying Trusts, immense national rivalries, and appalling bloody wars largely occasioned by the existence and ever-growing needs of such insatiable machines.",
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          "ref": "2020 June 3, “Network News: Graffiti attacks on WMR trains”, in Rail, page 15",
          "text": "A spate of graffiti attacks on West Midlands Railway trains has prompted the operator to warn vandals that they are posing a risk to public health. [...] \"At a time when our cleaning teams are working extremely hard in challenging conditions, it is soul-destroying for them to face this pointless additional workload just to get carriages back on the tracks.",
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          "ref": "2023 May 8, Naomi Klein, “AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "Generative AI won’t be the end of employment, we are told, only “boring work” – with chatbots helpfully doing all the soul-destroying, repetitive tasks and humans merely supervising them.",
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        "Causing erosion of moral fortitude or that eliminates hope or motivation"
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          "erosion",
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          "text": "The daily rat race is soul-destroying: you soon give up all aspirations and just try to survive the boredom.",
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          "ref": "1916, Friedrich von Hügel, The German Soul, pages 183–184",
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