Encourage
Encourage verb - To fill with courage or strength of purpose.
Open and encourage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Open" instead a verb "Encourage".
Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging
Common collocations
| way | encourage way | open way |
Both words in one sentence
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Cardia's narration lampshades the fact that simply reading the label fills her with the desire to open the tube, even speculating that it might be a trick designed to encourage people to open it.
Source: Visual Novel / Code:Realize - Police involvement, especially police involvement that ends badly, can shut off communication and encourage someone who needs, above all else, to talk and share and be open with their emotions to instead shut down.
Source: Useful Notes / Suicide - If you make him strike a friendship with Garcia, in their last support Garcia will encourage Gilliam to be open with his love for her when the war ends, and finishes saying that he should invite him and his son Ross to his wedding.
Source: Shipper On Deck / Video Games
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Open and Encourage. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 27, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/encourage/open
Encourage & Open. N.p., 2016. Web. 27 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/encourage/open>.
Open or Encourage. 2016. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/encourage/open.
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