discurage.

To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits; to deject; to deprive of confidence. Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be discouraged. Colossians 3:21.

To deter from any thing; with from. Why discourage ye the hearts of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord hath given them? Numbers 32:7.

To attempt to repress or prevent; to dissuade from; as, to discourage an effort.