Encourage
31encourage — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. animate, strengthen, hearten, fortify, inspirit, cheer, inspire, reassure, rally, comfort; abet, embolden, incite, urge, instigate; help, foster, promote, advance, advocate. See hope, cheerfulness …
32encourage — en·cour·age || ɪn kÊŒrɪdÊ’ v. support, inspire, give hope …
33encourage — to compel The language of totalitarianism: At Christmas [1940, French schoolchildren] were encouraged a euphemism for required to send cards, messages and drawings to their leader. (Ousby, 1997 the leader was Pétain) …
34encourage — verb give support, confidence, or hope to. ↘help or stimulate the development of. Derivatives encouragement noun encourager noun encouraging adjective encouragingly adverb Origin ME: from Fr. encourager, from en in + corage courage …
35encourage — v. a. 1. Embolden, inspirit, animate, enhearten, hearten, stimulate, cheer, incite, assure, reassure, comfort, console, buoy up. 2. Support, favor, countenance, further, advance, promote, foster, aid, help, abet, patronize, help forward …
36encourage — v 1. enhearten, hearten, reassure, assure, cheer, root, bear up, buoy, buoy up, Inf. chirk, Inf. pat on the back; stimulate, animate, whet, motivate, embolden, inspire, inspirit, nerve, build up, buck up, rally, boost, invigorate, Sl. give a shot …
37encourage — en·cour·age …
38encourage — en•cour•age [[t]ɛnˈkɜr ɪdʒ, ˈkʌr [/t]] v. t. aged, ag•ing 1) to inspire with courage, spirit, or confidence 2) to stimulate by guidance, approval, etc 3) to promote; foster • Etymology: 1400–50; late ME encoragen < AF, MF encorag(i) er… …
39encourage — Ho opaipai, paipai, ho opai, pai, hāpai, ho oikaika, hō ikaika, ho olana, hō eu, hō eu eu, ho okā eu eu, ho ohana, ho ohoihoi, lale, ho olale, kīpaipai, ho okokonoi e, ha inole …
40encourage — In criminal law, to instigate; to incite to action; to give courage to; to inspirit; to embolden; to raise confidence; to make confident; to help; to forward; to advise. See aid and abet …