Encourage and Make

Encourage

Encourage verb - Spur on.

Usage example: His financial success encouraged him to look for a wife

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

Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging

Make verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).

Usage example: the cats made quite a disturbance when they knocked the Christmas tree over

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Encourage and make are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Encourage" instead a verb "Make".

Nearby Words: makeup, making, maker

character	encourage character	make character
work	encourage work	make work
people	encourage people	make people
kind	encourage kind	make kind
Other words: peace, use, way, friends.

Grand Nagus Rom is trying to encourage his people to become considerably less self-serving, to make a profit without exploiting aliens.

Source: Literature / Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Relaunch
Griffith to make a pro-Allied film that would encourage American intervention in the war.

Source: Film / Hearts of the World
More Dakka: Several ship types and ground troops (especially if you are playing as humans Terrans) seem to encourage you to make as many as you can.

Source: Tabletop Game / Twilight Imperium

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