Causing erosion of moralfortitude or that eliminates hope or motivationWar is a soul-destroying experience for soldiers: you're never the same easy-going person after you've killed.The daily rat race is soul-destroying: you soon give up all aspirations and just try to survive the boredom.
1916, Friedrich von Hügel, The German Soul, pp183-184The results of such excessive concentration and production are, sooner or later, huge, soul-destroyingTrusts, immense national rivalries, and appalling bloody wars largely occasioned by the existence and ever-growing needs of such insatiable machines.
