Synonym: daunt, deject, deter, disapprove, hinder, keep from, prevent. Antonym: encourage. Similar words: discouraged, discount, discourse, encourage, courageous, encouraging, disc, discuss. Meaning: [dɪ'skʌrɪdʒ] 
v. 1. try to prevent; show opposition to 2. deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged 3. admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior.
v. 1. try to prevent; show opposition to 2. deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged 3. admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior. 
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181. In a move to discourage players jumping around, teams can exceed the league's salary cap -- last season it was $57.7 million -- to re-sign their own free agents.
182. A revenue tariff is imposed strictly to raise money for the government. But most tariffs in effect today are protectionist tariffs meant to discourage the import of a particular product.
183. Other measures include trailing aerial streamer lines to discourage birds from diving for trailing bait.
184. For example, praise may be useful in motivating students to learn by rote , but it may discourage problem solving.
185. The numerical results indicate that tax on capital inflows can discourage capital inflows, and that the outcome varies according to elasticity of saving and velocity of currency circulation.
186. To discourage moral hazard the interest rate should be at a penalty rate and, reflecting the rising risk, increase with the amount borrowed.
187. And it would define more tightly the terms cigarette, cigar, cigarillo, fine-cut tobacco and pipe tobacco in order to discourage the production of cross-over products.
188. An issuing bank should discourage any attempt by the applicant to include, as an integral part of the credit, copies of the underlying contract, pro forma invoice and the like.
189. But a lot of the time, well-meaning people will discourage friends from trying something that's difficult but achievable.
190. Cranberry juice is often recommended to acidify the urine and discourage development of stones.
191. Once a bubble is inflating many factors conspire to discourage a regulator pricking it.
192. It's an infernal mischance; I've done my best to discourage it.
193. And it's a surprising turnabout in a country in which government red-tape,(http://sentencedict.com/discourage.html) poverty and traditional attitudes long combined to discourage adoption.
194. The punitive tariff was imposed to discourage tire imports from China.
195. The government also instituted a graduated tax on new cars, designed to discourage purchases of gas guzzlers .
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