Encourage vs. Inspire — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Encourage and Inspire
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Encourage
To inspire with hope, courage, or confidence.
Inspire
To affect, guide, or arouse by divine influence.
Encourage
To give support to; foster
Policies designed to encourage private investment.
Inspire
To fill with enlivening or exalting emotion
Hymns that inspire the congregation.
An artist who was inspired by Impressionism.
Encourage
To stimulate; spur
Burning the field to encourage new plant growth.
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Inspire
To stimulate to action; motivate
A sales force that was inspired by the prospect of a bonus.
Encourage
To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
I encouraged him during his race.
Delia's coach encouraged her to focus on the positives.
Inspire
To cause (someone) to have a particular feeling; affect or touch
"At this moment he inspired her with disgust rather than with love" (Anthony Trollope).
Encourage
To spur on, strongly recommend.
We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.
We encourage you to cycle instead of taking the car.
Inspire
To cause someone to have (a feeling or reaction); elicit or arouse
A teacher who inspired admiration and respect.
Encourage
To foster, give help or patronage
The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed.
Inspire
To be the cause or source of; bring about
An invention that inspired many imitations.
Encourage
To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward; - the opposite of discourage.
David encouraged himself in the Lord.
Inspire
To draw in (air) by inhaling.
Encourage
Contribute to the progress or growth of;
I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom
Inspire
To breathe on.
Encourage
Inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to
Inspire
To breathe life into.
Encourage
Spur on;
His financial success encouraged him to look for a wife
Inspire
To stimulate energies, ideals, or reverence
A leader who inspires by example.
Inspire
To inhale.
Inspire
(transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
Inspire
(transitive) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to.
Elders should inspire children with sentiments of virtue.
The captain's speech was aimed to inspire her team to victory in the final.
Inspire
(intransitive) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
Inspire
To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
Inspire
To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
Inspire
(transitive) To spread rumour indirectly.
Inspire
To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
When Zephirus eek, with his sweete breath,Inspirèd hath in every holt and heathThe tender crops.
Descend, ye Nine, descend and sing,The breathing instruments inspire.
Inspire
To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
He knew not his Maker, and him that inspired into him an active soul.
Inspire
To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale; - opposed to expire.
Forced to inspire and expire the air with difficulty.
Inspire
To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
And generous stout courage did inspire.
But dawning day new comfort hath inspired.
Inspire
To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens, or exalts; to communicate inspiration to; as, to inspire a child with sentiments of virtue; to inspire a person to do extraordinary feats.
Erato, thy poet's mind inspire,And fill his soul with thy celestial fire.
Inspire
To draw in breath; to inhale air into the lungs; - opposed to expire.
Inspire
To breathe; to blow gently.
And when the wind amongst them did inspire,They wavèd like a penon wide dispread.
Inspire
Heighten or intensify;
These paintings exalt the imagination
Inspire
Supply the inspiration for;
The article about the artist inspired the exhibition of his recent work
Inspire
Serve as the inciting cause of;
She prompted me to call my relatives
Inspire
Urge on or encourage especially by shouts;
The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers
Inspire
Fill with revolutionary ideas
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
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