| encourage | | |
| v. (social) | 1. advance, boost, encourage, further, promote | contribute to the progress or growth of.; "I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom" |
| ~ connive at, wink at | give one's silent approval to. |
| ~ foster, further | promote the growth of.; "Foster our children's well-being and education" |
| ~ spur | incite or stimulate.; "The Academy was formed to spur research" |
| ~ help | contribute to the furtherance of.; "This money will help the development of literacy in developing countries" |
| ~ carry | take further or advance.; "carry a cause" |
| ~ feed | support or promote.; "His admiration fed her vanity" |
| ~ conduce, contribute, lead | be conducive to.; "The use of computers in the classroom lead to better writing" |
| ~ back up, support | give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to.; "She supported him during the illness"; "Her children always backed her up" |
| v. (emotion) | 2. encourage | inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to. |
| ~ exhort, pep up, root on, urge on, barrack, urge, inspire, cheer | spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts.; "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers" |
| ~ nurture, foster | help develop, help grow.; "nurture his talents" |
| ~ hollo | encourage somebody by crying hollo. |
| ~ hope | be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.; "I am still hoping that all will turn out well" |
| ~ animate, enliven, inspire, invigorate, exalt | heighten or intensify.; "These paintings exalt the imagination" |
| ~ cheer, embolden, hearten, recreate | give encouragement to. |
| ~ draw out | make more sociable.; "The therapist drew out the shy girl" |
| ~ bring out | encourage to be less reserved.; "The teacher tried to bring out the shy boy" |
| ~ goad, spur | give heart or courage to. |
| v. (communication) | 3. encourage | spur on.; "His financial success encouraged him to look for a wife" |
| ~ cause, induce, stimulate, make, get, have | cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner.; "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa" |
| inspire | | |
| v. (emotion) | 1. animate, enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate | heighten or intensify.; "These paintings exalt the imagination" |
| ~ stimulate, shake up, stir, excite, shake | stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of.; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country" |
| ~ encourage | inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to. |
| v. (creation) | 2. inspire | supply the inspiration for.; "The article about the artist inspired the exhibition of his recent work" |
| ~ occasion | give occasion to. |
| v. (communication) | 3. inspire, instigate, prompt | serve as the inciting cause of.; "She prompted me to call my relatives" |
| ~ cause, induce, stimulate, make, get, have | cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner.; "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa" |
| v. (communication) | 4. barrack, cheer, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on | spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts.; "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers" |
| ~ cheerlead | act as a cheerleader in a sports event. |
| ~ encourage | inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to. |
| v. (cognition) | 5. inspire, revolutionise, revolutionize | fill with revolutionary ideas. |
| ~ indoctrinate | teach doctrines to; teach uncritically.; "The Moonies indoctrinate their disciples" |
| v. (body) | 6. breathe in, inhale, inspire | draw in (air).; "Inhale deeply"; "inhale the fresh mountain air"; "The patient has trouble inspiring"; "The lung cancer patient cannot inspire air very well" |
| ~ breathe, take a breath, suspire, respire | draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs.; "I can breathe better when the air is clean"; "The patient is respiring" |
| ~ aspirate | suck in (air). |
| ~ sniff, sniffle | inhale audibly through the nose.; "the sick student was sniffling in the back row" |
| ~ snivel, snuffle | snuff up mucus through the nose. |
| ~ snuff | inhale audibly through the nose.; "snuff coke" |
| ~ puff, drag, draw | suck in or take (air).; "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette" |
| ~ huff, snort | inhale recreational drugs.; "The addict was snorting cocaine almost every day"; "the kids were huffing glue" |
| intensify | | |
| v. (change) | 1. escalate, intensify, step up | increase in extent or intensity.; "The Allies escalated the bombing" |
| ~ increase | make bigger or more.; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted" |
| ~ redouble | double in magnitude, extent, or intensity.; "The enemy redoubled their screaming on the radio" |
| v. (change) | 2. compound, deepen, heighten, intensify | make more intense, stronger, or more marked.; "The efforts were intensified"; "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions" |
| ~ increase | become bigger or greater in amount.; "The amount of work increased" |
| ~ deepen, intensify | become more intense.; "The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan" |
| ~ screw up, hot up, heat up | make more intense.; "Emotions were screwed up" |
| ~ fan | make (an emotion) fiercer.; "fan hatred" |
| ~ enhance, heighten, raise | increase.; "This will enhance your enjoyment"; "heighten the tension" |
| ~ amplify | increase the volume of.; "amplify sound" |
| ~ sharpen | make crisp or more crisp and precise.; "We had to sharpen our arguments" |
| ~ heighten, sharpen | make (one's senses) more acute.; "This drug will sharpen your vision" |
| v. (change) | 3. deepen, intensify | become more intense.; "The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan" |
| ~ increase | become bigger or greater in amount.; "The amount of work increased" |
| ~ build | develop and grow.; "Suspense was building right from the beginning of the opera" |
| ~ redouble | make twice as great or intense.; "The screaming redoubled" |
| ~ erupt, flare up, irrupt, break open, burst out, flare | erupt or intensify suddenly.; "Unrest erupted in the country"; "Tempers flared at the meeting"; "The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism" |
| ~ condense | become more compact or concentrated.; "Her feelings condensed" |
| ~ sharpen | become sharp or sharper.; "The debate sharpened" |
| ~ accelerate, quicken, speed up, speed | move faster.; "The car accelerated" |
| v. (change) | 4. intensify | make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark. |
| ~ photography | the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies. |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| motivate | | |
| v. (creation) | 1. actuate, incite, motivate, move, prompt, propel | give an incentive for action.; "This moved me to sacrifice my career" |
| ~ cause, do, make | give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally.; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident" |
| ~ impress, strike, affect, move | have an emotional or cognitive impact upon.; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd" |
| ~ move | arouse sympathy or compassion in.; "Her fate moved us all" |
| promote | | |
| v. (social) | 1. advance, elevate, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade | give a promotion to or assign to a higher position.; "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work" |
| ~ assign, delegate, designate, depute | give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person). |
| ~ tenure | give life-time employment to.; "She was tenured after she published her book" |
| ~ bring up | promote from a lower position or rank.; "This player was brought up to the major league" |
| ~ spot promote | promote on the spot.; "Supreme Bishop Digby had been spot-promoted to Archangel" |
| ~ ennoble, gentle, entitle | give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility. |
| ~ favor, favour, prefer | promote over another.; "he favors his second daughter" |
| ~ brevet | promote somebody by brevet, in the military. |
| v. (communication) | 2. advertise, advertize, promote, push | make publicity for; try to sell (a product).; "The salesman is aggressively pushing the new computer model"; "The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops" |
| ~ praise | express approval of.; "The parents praised their children for their academic performance" |
| ~ propagandise, propagandize | spread by propaganda. |
| ~ plug | make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote. |
| ~ bill | advertise especially by posters or placards.; "He was billed as the greatest tenor since Caruso" |
| ~ crusade, campaign, agitate, fight, push, press | exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for.; "The liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate" |
| ~ crusade, campaign, agitate, fight, push, press | exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for.; "The liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate" |
| v. (competition) | 3. promote | be changed for a superior chess or checker piece. |
| ~ board game | a game played on a specially designed board. |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ promote | change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent. |
| ~ queen | become a queen.; "her pawn queened" |
| v. (competition) | 4. promote | change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent. |
| ~ chess game, chess | a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king. |
| ~ play | use or move.; "I had to play my queen" |
| ~ promote | be changed for a superior chess or checker piece. |
| ~ queen | promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess. |
| urge | | |
| n. (motive) | 1. impulse, urge | an instinctive motive.; "profound religious impulses" |
| ~ motivation, motive, need | the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior.; "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives" |
| ~ abience | (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object. |
| ~ adience | (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object. |
| ~ death instinct, death wish, thanatos | (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die. |
| ~ itchy feet, wanderlust | very strong or irresistible impulse to travel. |
| n. (feeling) | 2. itch, urge | a strong restless desire.; "why this urge to travel?" |
| ~ desire | the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state. |
| v. (communication) | 3. exhort, press, urge, urge on | force or impel in an indicated direction.; "I urged him to finish his studies" |
| ~ hurry, rush | urge to an unnatural speed.; "Don't rush me, please!" |
| ~ push, bear on | press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action.; "He pushed her to finish her doctorate" |
| ~ advocate, preach | speak, plead, or argue in favor of.; "The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house" |
| ~ advise, counsel, rede | give advice to.; "The teacher counsels troubled students"; "The lawyer counselled me when I was accused of tax fraud" |
| v. (communication) | 4. advocate, recommend, urge | push for something.; "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day" |
| ~ propose, suggest, advise | make a proposal, declare a plan for something.; "the senator proposed to abolish the sales tax" |
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