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Inspire

verb

(past & past part. inspired; pres. part. inspiring)

Heighten or intensify. Synonyms: animate, enliven, exalt, invigorate.

Supply the inspiration for.

Serve as the inciting cause of. Synonyms: instigate, prompt.

Spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts. Synonyms: barrack, cheer, exhort, pep up, root on, urge, urge on.

Fill with revolutionary ideas. Synonyms: revolutionise, revolutionize.

Draw in (air). Synonyms: breathe in, inhale. "Inhale the fresh mountain air" , "The patient has trouble inspiring" , "The lung cancer patient cannot inspire air very well"

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... accomplishment of his own predictions, and provided her with the most renowned masters. To inspire her with emulation, his Eminence took her one evening to his own box: it would be something to see the performance, something more to hear the applause lavished upon the glittering signoras she was hereafter to excel! Oh, how gloriously ...

— Zanoni • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... their sacred vestments and carrying crucifixes, led the rebel forces; and the ignorant peasants, believing them to be endowed with miraculous powers, followed them with the blind adherence that only fanaticism can inspire. And yet—so strangely contradictory is everything in Ireland—there is clear evidence that amongst those priestly agitators many were at heart deists, who were making use of religion in the hope of furthering Jacobinism. ...

— Is Ulster Right? • Anonymous

... much of what he saw and was bored to death. As for her, she took in scarcely more than did her husband, though she understood many of the words she heard, but then she reverently followed the good manners of the "real Americans" on the stage, and the sound of their "educated" English seemed to inspire her with mixed ...

— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan

... me; I imagine you didn't want me to know! He's certainly not what the boys call a looker and his face doesn't inspire me with ...

— The Lure of the North • Harold Bindloss

... second paper he makes interesting reflections on Thackeray and Dickens. "When the honour devolved upon me of illustrating Esmond," he writes, "what would I not have given to possess sketches, however slight, of Thackeray's own from which to inspire myself—since he was no longer alive to consult. For although he does not, any more than Dickens, very minutely describe the outer aspect of his people, he visualised them very accurately, ...

— George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians • T. Martin Wood

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