Discourage
Discourage (verb)
to stop something from happening by making it more difficult or unpleasant, make someone less confident or optimistic, deter, frighten, dispirit, dishearten, cast down, dissuade, oppose, hinder, prevent, suppress:
His lack of confidence is rooted in his parents who used to discourage him when he was a young child.
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