Inspire

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  • intransitive verb. To affect, guide, or arouse by divine influence.
  • intransitive verb. To fill with enlivening or exalting emotion.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To stimulate to action; motivate: synonym: encourage.
  • intransitive verb. To cause (someone) to have a particular feeling; affect or touch.
  • intransitive verb. To cause someone to have (a feeling or reaction); elicit or arouse.
  • intransitive verb. To be the cause or source of; bring about.
  • intransitive verb. To draw in (air) by inhaling.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To breathe on.
  • intransitive verb. To breathe life into.
  • intransitive verb. To stimulate energies, ideals, or reverence.
  • intransitive verb. To inhale.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To breathe in; draw into the lungs; inhale: as, to inspire pure air: opposed to expire.
  • To breathe into; infuse by or as if by breathing.
  • Hence To actuate or influence; animate; affect, rouse, or control by an infused, animating, or exalting influence.
  • Specifically To guide or control by divine influence; instruct or infuse with spiritual or divine knowledge.
  • To inhale air; draw air into the lungs: opposed to expire.
  • To blow; blow in.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To draw in breath; to inhale air into the lungs; -- opposed to expire.
  • intransitive verb. To breathe; to blow gently.
  • transitive verb. To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
  • transitive verb. To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
  • transitive verb. To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale; -- opposed to expire.
  • transitive verb. 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 verb. To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens, or exalts; to communicate inspiration to.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. 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.
  • verb. To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to.
  • verb. To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
  • verb. To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
  • verb. (transitive) To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
  • verb. To spread rumour indirectly.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. supply the inspiration for
  • verb. spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
  • verb. draw in (air)
  • verb. heighten or intensify
  • verb. fill with revolutionary ideas
  • verb. serve as the inciting cause of
  • Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    expire  
    cross-reference
    excite  inhale  suggest  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cause  get  have  indoctrinate  induce  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Gire  Gyr  Tyre  admire  afire  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    compel  creative  excite  helpful  joyous  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form