encourage in English: To give someone the courage or hope to do something, or to keep doing it. (verb)

Translation

To give someone the courage or hope to do something, or to keep doing it.

Word origin

From Old French encoragier, meaning to put courage in, built on corage, heart or spirit, from Latin cor, heart.

Verb typeregular (encourage, encourages, encouraged)

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We encourage someone to do something.

runners.

Cheering encourages people; it gives them heart.

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The opposite is discourage, to take someone's courage away.

help

To do something that makes things easier or better for another person.

support

To help someone or something, or to hold a thing up so that it does not fall.

hope

To want something to happen and feel that it might.

push

To press on something with your hands to move it away from you.

brave

Ready to do something hard or dangerous even when you feel afraid.

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