Inspire vs. Enlighten — What's the Difference?

To affect, guide, or arouse by divine influence.

To give spiritual or intellectual insight to

To fill with enlivening or exalting emotion

To give information to; inform or instruct.

To stimulate to action; motivate

(transitive) To supply with light.

To cause (someone) to have a particular feeling; affect or touch

To make something clear to (someone); to give knowledge or understanding to.

To cause someone to have (a feeling or reaction); elicit or arouse

To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth.

To be the cause or source of; bring about

To make clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase of knowledge; to instruct; as, to enlighten the mind or understanding.

To draw in (air) by inhaling.

Make understand;

To breathe on.

Give spiritual insight to; in religion

To breathe life into.

Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear;

To stimulate energies, ideals, or reverence

To inhale.

(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.

(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.

(intransitive) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.

To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.

To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.

(transitive) To spread rumour indirectly.

To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.

To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.

To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale; - opposed to expire.

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.

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.

To draw in breath; to inhale air into the lungs; - opposed to expire.

To breathe; to blow gently.

Heighten or intensify;

Supply the inspiration for;

Serve as the inciting cause of;

Urge on or encourage especially by shouts;

Fill with revolutionary ideas

Draw in (air);