Encourage and Pet

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Encourage

Encourage verb - To fill with courage or strength of purpose.
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Pet and encourage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pet" instead a verb "Encourage".
Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging

Pet

Pet verb - To touch or handle in a tender or loving manner.
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Encourage and pet are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Encourage" instead a verb "Pet".
Nearby Words: petted, petting
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discussion encourage discussion pet discussion
members encourage members pet members

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  • She has a pet bird who meets its sad demise when Sooner and other neighborhood kids attempt to encourage the bird to fly.
    Source: Death by Newbery Medal
  • Film director Werner Herzog once ate his own shoe as part of a bet to encourage Errol Morris to finish Gates of Heaven, a weird documentary on pet cemeteries.
    Source: Crazy Awesome / Real Life
  • Cruel Player-Character God Then there's your pet, which is Kaiju-sized and has some pretty nifty AI routines which let you encourage it to behave in certain ways.
    Source: Cruel Player-Character God
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