Demoralized meaning

Dozsa, too, had become demoralized by success.

Dumbledore's death demoralized the Order of the Phoenix and polarized the wizarding world in preparation for the final battles to come.

But in the ensuing summer, after a terrible outbreak of plague had ravaged the crowded city, the people became thoroughly demoralized.

Nor were the people only enfeebled for resistance to a real foe; the whole political spirit of the race was demoralized.

It was now intended to re-establish the government on the basis of the old republican institutions, but it was found that sixty years of Medici rule had reduced them to mere shadows, and the condition of the government, largely controlled by a balia of 20 accoppiatori and frequently disturbed by the summoning of the parlamento, was utterly chaotic. Consequently men talked of nothing save of changing the constitution, but unfortunately there was no longer an upper class accustomed to public affairs, while the lower class was thoroughly demoralized.