Encourage
Encourage verb - To fill with courage or strength of purpose.
Obscure and encourage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Obscure" instead a verb "Encourage".
Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging
Common collocations
| relationship | encourage relationship | obscure relationship |
| players | encourage players | obscure players |
Both words in one sentence
- Apocalypse is actually created for Warhammer 40K both to encourage the sales of rather obscure models (especially Forgeworld Models) as well as to get older players to dig out their full collection to play with.
Source: Alt-itis
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Obscure and Encourage. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 27, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/encourage/obscure
Encourage & Obscure. N.p., 2016. Web. 27 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/encourage/obscure>.
Obscure or Encourage. 2016. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/encourage/obscure.
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