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encourage
English
Alternative forms
- incourage (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English encouragen, encoragen, from Anglo-Norman encoragier, from Old French encoragier from en- +? corage "courage". Displaced native Middle English belden, bielden (“to encourage”) (from Old English bieldan (“to encourage”)), Middle English bealden, balden (“to encourage”) (from Old English bealdian (“to encourage, make bold”)), Middle English herten (“to encourage, enhearten”) (from Old English hiertan, hyrtan (“to enhearten”)), Old English elnian (“to encourage, strengthen”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?k???d?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?k???d?/
- Hyphenation: en?cour?age
Verb
encourage (third-person singular simple present encourages, present participle encouraging, simple past and past participle encouraged) (transitive)
- To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
- I encouraged him during his race.
- To spur on, strongly recommend.
- We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.
- To foster, give help or patronage
- The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed
Synonyms
- bield
- embolden
Antonyms
- becourage
- discourage
Derived terms
- encouragement
- encouraging
- encouragingly
Related terms
- courage
Translations
French
Verb
encourage
- inflection of encourager:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- singular imperative
encourage From the web:
- what encouraged the growth of the advertising industry
- what encouraged migration to the west
- what encourages hair growth
- what encouraged the colonial transatlantic trade
- what encouraged the boston massacre
- what encouraged westward expansion
- what encourages lifelong learning behavior
- what encouraged immigrants to come to america
recreate
English
Etymology 1
From the participle stem of Latin recreare (“to restore”), from re- (“re-”) + creare (“to create”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???k??e?t/
Verb
recreate (third-person singular simple present recreates, present participle recreating, simple past and past participle recreated)
- (transitive) To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
- 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
- Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colours mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying […] the sight more than any.
- 1688, Henry More, Divine Dialogues
- These ripe fruit […] recreate the nostrils with their aromatick scent.
- 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
- (reflexive) To enjoy or entertain oneself.
- In Italy, though they bide in cities in winter, which is more gentlemanlike, all the summer they come abroad to their country-houses, to recreate themselves.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge
- (intransitive) To take recreation.
- 2004, Forbes (volume 173, issues 4-9, page 156)
- Phonecams are proliferating like mad, their tiny eyes fuzzily probing so many corners of public and private life that they have begun to alter how people communicate and recreate.
- 2004, Forbes (volume 173, issues 4-9, page 156)
Synonyms
- (refresh): encourage, enliven, refresh
- (amuse): amuse, delight, enjoy
Related terms
- recreation
Translations
Etymology 2
re- +? create
Alternative forms
- re-create
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?i?k???e?t/
Verb
recreate (third-person singular simple present recreates, present participle recreating, simple past and past participle recreated)
- To create anew.
Translations
Latin
Verb
recre?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of recre?
recreate From the web:
- what creates wind
- what created the universe
- what creates a magnetic field
- what created the big bang
- what created the grand canyon
- what creates lightning
- what creates gravity
- what creates earth's magnetic field
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