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encourage English

Meaning encourage meaning

What does encourage mean?
Definitions in simple English

encourage Verb

— If you encourage someone, you make them feel that they want to, or can, do something. We're trying to encourage more people to give money to the hospital. I encouraged my son to audition for the school play. It will be difficult, but I'm encouraged by our success so far. — If mathx/math encourages mathy/math, mathx/math makes mathy/math more likely to happen. The water encourages the breakdown of the wood.

encourage

— verb (= promote) contribute to the progress or growth of I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom — verb inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to — verb spur on His financial success encouraged him to look for a wife

Synonyms encourage synonyms

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encourage English » English

urge stimulate inspire promote incite cheer instigate support spur on impel hearten spur stir up embolden abet prompt strengthen prod foster trigger stir give hope provocate advance induce cheer up inspirit further comfort boost provoke motivate invigorate favour exhort arouse urge on rouse reassure encouragement drive console refresh recommend offer nourish invite give encouragement enthuse cheer on

Topics encourage topics

What do people use encourage to talk about?
Language and thought Want Influence

Persuade
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Like, love

Self-esteem
Language and thought Emotion Feel good

Confident
Social behavior Conflict Peace

Make an appeal

Conjugation encourage conjugation

How do you conjugate encourage?

encourage · verb

Examples encourage examples

How do I use encourage in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Me? Encourage you to work? Blasphemy!
Promotions encourage translators.
I encourage my brother.
I encourage all my students.
These compliments encourage me to continue. However, there's still a long way to go.
We have to figure out a way to encourage Tom to do the right thing.
What do you think is the best way to encourage Tom to study more?
You often encourage me to be good and hardworking.
One way to lower the number of errors in the Tatoeba Corpus would be to encourage people to only translate into their native languages.
Tom didn't want to encourage Mary to do anything that might get her in trouble.
I encourage you to be good and diligent.
Encourage him to do it.
Did Marika encourage you to learn Finnish?
Parents should encourage their children to read.
It is necessary for you to go and encourage the girl.
You must encourage him to try again.
American industry makes various attempts to find and encourage brilliant students from abroad.
When I'm sad, my friends encourage me.
Don't encourage her.
That's something I won't encourage.

Movie subtitles

Don't encourage him.
I can't believe that you'd willingly encourage paganism.
It may encourage him about you.
And don't encourage him to stay here.
I do hope you will encourage this new plan of Marguerite's.
Don't encourage them to.
And now Watson, we shall treat ourselves for a couple of carpet bags, encourage the manufacturers, the countries through which we travel and make our way at leisure into Switzerland via Brussels, Luxemberg.
What can I possibly do to encourage such an impulse in you?
Well, don't encourage him.
I suppose Shaw knows his business, but. the way he let those Indians manhandle us, you'd think he was deliberately going out of his way to encourage them to strike out at us again.
This'll not only cost you the election, but I'll encourage the voters of this state to tear you limb from limb! I'll head the tar-and-feather party personally! When I'm through with you, you'll wish you'd never been born.
It'd encourage her so much.
Encourage both of us, in fact.
I encourage it when someone on the paper gets into a good fight over an important issue. Always.
Your weakness would only encourage future crimes.
Don't encourage them to..
I do blame you - to foster this, to encourage it behind my back, to bring the daughter of my worst enemy under my own roof.
This'll not only cost you the election, but I'll encourage the voters of this state to tear you limb from limb!
Go ahead. Few husbands encourage spending. You can count them.
I encourage it when someone on the paper gets into a good fight over an important issue.
No wonder that girl despises me, the way you encourage her.
I always encourage a spirit of fun in my servants.
As for being a mass killer, does not the world encourage it?
Give him a drink to encourage him!
Don't encourage them to.. To admire you.
I knew it was a mistake to encourage her, sir.
Some of them just encourage other people to drink.
Now, does it hurt me if I encourage him with his union work?
Encourage him.
Am I supposed to encourage Lord Augustus to marry you?
I could sponsor you talk about you, encourage you.
It's not the magistrate who's talking to you here, it's the man, it's the friend, who wonders if your exceptional and at times very singular eloquence might not be of such a kind, I repeat, as to encourage crime. Yes!
You shouldn't encourage them, you know.
By being passive, we encourage evil.
We really don't encourage them.

News and current affairs

A simplified CAP would encourage cleaner, more productive, and efficient agriculture.
The WHO's efforts to encourage broad reforms at the international level are crucial.
Most importantly, price signals that show the true social costs of energy derived from fossil fuels will encourage innovation and conservation.
An effective strategy must accomplish two tasks: encourage investment in non-traditional areas, and weed out projects and investments that fail.
It will encourage the reemergence of global imbalances.
So, unlike in Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgizstan, and Lebanon, it does nothing to encourage popular opposition.
The US can also encourage other countries to share in production of such public goods.
Too many Americans built no cushion into their budgets, and mortgage companies, focusing on the fees generated by new mortgages, did not encourage them to do so.
If America does not, it may very likely encourage others to develop their own standards and their own nuclear arsenals.
The failure of China to move more quickly to encourage higher domestic spending commensurate with its higher incomes added fuel to the fire.
It was right to encourage a new economy to grow outside these congealed structures.
Even in countries where oil revenues could fuel a significant amount of research, Arab rulers did not encourage such investment, with the result that their societies have not prospered as much as they might have.
They should also legislate now for future reforms, notably to encourage people to work longer.
Usually, such a vision provides a scenario for the future that is meant to encourage change, though it may also portray the status quo - or the past - as attractive, thereby encouraging resistance to change.
France, at the heart of the European Union and President of both the G-8 and G-20 this year, is in an exceptional position to encourage such a regulatory move.
If Iran is successful in its plan to acquire nuclear weapons, its leaders could shake the Middle East and encourage more extremism and violence.
Instead, political leaders must use these windfalls to invest in innovation, promote sustainable businesses, and encourage new patterns of decent, long-lasting employment.
And America must be a respectful partner in order to encourage rising powers like India and China to play more constructive roles in international affairs.
Trade officials in both the US and Europe say that they will no longer encourage farmers to overproduce, and that they will end programs that specifically subsidize exports.
The continent needs measures that are designed to encourage savings and investment, improve labor utilization, and upgrade failed educational systems.
While the reform process should certainly be homegrown, the United States and the rest of the international community can encourage democratic development without imposing it from afar.

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