Encourage
Encourage verb - To fill with courage or strength of purpose.
Hand and encourage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hand" instead a verb "Encourage".
Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging
Common collocations
| army | encourage army | hand army |
Both words in one sentence
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He doesn't realise she's got nothing else on until she slips his hand underneath it to encourage him to get her past a police roadblock.
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On the other hand, she does try to encourage her current crush (Twilight Sparkle) to become immortal as well.
Source: Mayfly-December Romance -
On the other hand, the more traditional folks tried to keep it from release for fears it would encourage drinking.
Source: Film / The Lost Weekend
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