INSPIRE
- Verb:
- To fill someone with the urge or ability to do or feel something, especially something creative: To stimulate, motivate, or encourage someone, often leading to a new idea, action, or artistic work.
- To breathe in (air): To inhale. (This is a formal or technical meaning, often used in medical contexts.)
Verb (to motivate/encourage): Her dedication to helping others inspired me to volunteer.The beautiful scenery inspired the poet to write.A good leader should inspire their team.
Verb (to inhale - formal/technical): The doctor asked the patient to inspire deeply.It is difficult to inspire through a blocked nose.
"to inspire confidence/trust/fear": To cause a particular feeling or quality in others. His calm demeanor inspired confidence in the passengers during the emergency.The general's reputation inspired fear in his enemies.
"to be inspired by": To be influenced creatively or intellectually by something or someone. The architect was inspired by natural forms.This song was inspired by a true story.
- Inspiration (noun): The process of being mentally stimulated or the thing/person that causes this feeling.
- Inspiring (adjective): Having the effect of inspiring someone.
- Inspirational (adjective): Providing inspiration.
- Motivate: To provide someone with a reason for doing something.
- Encourage: To give support, confidence, or hope to someone.
- Stimulate: To encourage or arouse interest or enthusiasm.
- Galvanize: To shock or excite someone into taking action.
- Inhale: To breathe in. (Synonym for the "breathe" meaning.)
(Note: "Inspire" is not commonly used with particles to form standard phrasal verbs. Its meanings are typically expressed directly or with prepositions like "to" or "by".)
- "To inspire awe": To fill someone with a feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder.
- draw in (air)
- Inhale deeply
- inhale the fresh mountain air
- The patient has trouble inspiring
- The lung cancer patient cannot inspire air very well
- fill with revolutionary ideas
- spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
- The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers
- serve as the inciting cause of
- She prompted me to call my relatives
- supply the inspiration for
- The article about the artist inspired the exhibition of his recent work
- heighten or intensify
- These paintings exalt the imagination