Encourage is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ENCOURAGE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to hearten, also ACCORAGE, ACCOURAGE
• give support, confidence, or hope to (someone)
• persuade (someone) to do or continue to do something by giving support and advice
• stimulate the development of (an activity, state, or belief)
• inspire with confidence
• 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.
• contribute to the progress or growth of
• inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to
• spur on
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to inspire with courage, spirit, or hop; hearten; to attempt to persuad; urge

Words related to ENCOURAGE

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Words that contain ENCOURAGE

encouraged14 encourager13 encourages13 encouragers14 encouragement18 overencourage19 encouragements19 overencouraged21 overencourages20

How to use ENCOURAGE in a sentence

• The people of Kansas did not encourage the blacks to come.
• Is it not thus directly calculated to encourage indolence and insubordination? 3.
• This man is using his means and influence to encourage the study of his favorite art, and of the arts and sciences generally, among those of his own hue.
• Instead of laying a tax, we ought to give a bounty, to encourage foreigners to come among us.
• Instead of laying a tax, we ought to a give a bounty, to encourage foreigners to come among us.
• Stopping for a moment to raise and encourage her, he lost sight of the bear, and could not recover the track.
• She had made him a good wife, for he was one of those men who need feminine encouragement, and with all his brilliance would never have got so far without her to encourage him.
• Do not encourage them to join guilds of art and crafts, where, though they may learn a craft, they will lose their sense of art.
• But he directed the chiefs to advise their followers not to consent to the proposal, and to encourage them to make one more fight for the honor of their country.
• I decided on answering her question in such terms as might encourage her to take me into her confidence.
• We never punish by the imposition of tasks, our aim being to inculcate the love of study, and encourage the child to regard his work as a favour and a privilege.
• Ferdinand and Isabella raised him from the ground and endeavoured to encourage him by the most gracious expressions.
• If we give to such as are able to work and support themselves, but do not, we rather encourage them in their habits of idleness.
• And Bagdad-on-the-Subway for a long time did everything possible to encourage his belief.
• Lombardy, heavy with conquest, fearful for her prize, which was Italy, was compelled to encourage the growth of the naval cities.
• The man having his mat on, which the shot were not able to penetrate, this had no other effect than to irritate and encourage them.
• But, while he generally seems to believe in the current doctrine of eternal damnation, he sometimes appears to encourage the hope that all will finally be saved.
• These, and other obstacles, little fitted to encourage travellers, still exist.
• The beholding whereof will much encourage those, who by fame and bare wordes are made to doubt much more then there is cause why they should.
• The grove is yielding from one to two bushels of nuts a year and should be thinned so as to open it up and encourage nut production.
• Several late Productions of my own Countrymen, who many of them make a very eminent Figure in the Illiterate World, Encourage me in this Undertaking.
• This could not fail to encourage those who wished for the equivalent of an hereditary prince.
• I shall do all I can to encourage schoolboy sports in Gridley.
• Now that the legislature had adjourned, he was anxious to give his energy to the law, and he did not encourage political pilgrims to visit his office.
• These small mishaps are of no great importance in themselves, but they encourage the enemy no doubt to go on fighting.
• You had best spend the afternoon with the old lady and encourage her all you can.

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