Collocations for discourage - verb

actively, positively (esp. BrE), strongly
Smoking is actively discouraged in the university.

effectively
Our system effectively discourages investment.

try to

from
We tried to discourage him from resigning.

(not) easily discouraged
Children are easily discouraged from reading.
I'm not easily discouraged.

Discourage is used with these nouns as the object:
development, immigration, import, innovation, intruder, investment, participation, practice, shopper, use, vandal, vandalism