break somebody's spirit

But fixing their broken spirits was more important than the furniture, she said.

Five years of broken bones and a broken spirit, Laura thought.

Once in a while the lonely, broken spirit of man is healed and made whole.

She was a broken spirit, I tell you.

Moreover, the latest move was more significant than the others, which were usually the switching of one broken spirit for another.

He died, alone and with broken spirit, within a week, on 4 November 1581.

But the scars on his broken spirits tell another tale.

There was no broken spirit behind her dark eyes, and her fear was only physical.

He sought to revive the broken spirit of the simple Jews.

How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?