Encourage and Maintain

Encourage

Encourage verb - To fill with courage or strength of purpose.

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Maintain and encourage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Maintain" instead a verb "Encourage".

Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging

Maintain verb - To keep in good condition.

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Encourage and maintain are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Encourage" instead a verb "Maintain".

loyalty	encourage loyalty	maintain loyalty
attitude	encourage attitude	maintain attitude
kind	encourage kind	maintain kind
image	encourage image	maintain image
Other words: peace, relationship, army, relationships.

The Vocal Minority of his fans, along with his estate, family, and certain collaborators, continue to encourage and maintain it.

Source: Music / Michael Jackson
The Sword of Truth: This may be a little unfair, but Richard Rahl does maintain and encourage the tradition of everyone regularly bowing down and chanting, "Master Rahl guide us... In your light we thrive...Our lives are yours," for four hours a day.

Source: A God Am I / Literature
The sea-people encourage this partly because the offspring of one of them and a normal human can't breathe underwater, so too many sea-people marrying land-dwellers would make it hard to maintain their population.

Source: Anime / Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea

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