how to pronounce discourage

/dɪsˈkɝɪdʒ/

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discourage is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of discourage in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… it might even discourage war together …”

meaning of discourage

Dishearten means to make someone feel less confident or depressed.

discourage frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word discourage occurs in english on average 3.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics discourage can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that discourage can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;