Bid
Encourage
Encourage verb - To fill with courage or strength of purpose.
Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Flame Stanbury, who donned the costume in a bid to encourage an uprising against a tyrant, and ended up marrying the real Phantom.
Source: Comic Strip / The Phantom - Erandis' family, House Vol, secretly collaborated with a green dragon in a bid to end the war, assuming that by producing a half-dragon and therefore showing the two races could be united, it would encourage an end to the fighting.
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