discourage **

At least long enough for them to become discouraged and leave.

I would never discourage someone from trying to start a group.

How can we discourage such things without the use of force?

He had tried to discourage the men from getting them.

He was about to ask something, but I discouraged him.

Why did he want to discourage me from doing my job?

Men also were more likely to use discouraged as a reason than women.

Some of these became discouraged and left the first year.

If anything, my father might have wanted to discourage me.

Many of those were people who had simply become too discouraged to keep looking for work.

His father discouraged him from music, saying he needed to get a real job.

She was out of the door and gone before I could discourage her further.

Right now, the last thing they needed was more bad news to discourage them.

By the end of 1982 there were 1.8 million such discouraged workers.

I am discouraged, and nothing will bring me out of it.

There was only one more thing he could say to discourage them.

So, if people show up, we just have to discourage them.

The real reason, of course, was to discourage anyone from going there.

What is the Government going to do to discourage this?

"Why are you trying to discourage us from going on?"

In the beginning she should even discourage him from talking.

And they tell me about how discouraged their son or daughter may be.

But as months and years passed, he became discouraged, say people who knew him then.

Discouraged, he got to his feet and went back to look at the main room.

Or he could keep moving, to discourage someone else from doing the same.