Encourage and Please

Encourage

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

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Please and encourage are semantically related in activity topic. In some cases you can use "Please" instead a verb "Encourage".

Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging

Please verb - To give satisfaction to.

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Encourage and please are semantically related in activity topic. Sometimes you can use "Encourage" instead a verb "Please".

Nearby Word: pleased

person	encourage person	please person
people	encourage people	please people
men	encourage men	please men
children	encourage children	please children
Other words: someone, parents, audience, way, anyone, everyone, viewers, friends, fans, members.

In the fanfic The Basalt City Chronicles, an ancient computer uses this to encourage him to dismantel it—it's suffered a fire, is no longer in great shape, and would really like to die, please.

Source: Technopath
Some of them even encourage it, requesting on their user page to please whack them with a trout if they do something stupid. *WHACK!

Source: Shamu Fu
Is Serious Business: All the Nurse Joys ask this of Fire/Leaf after healing your pokemon: Please don't come back Pet the Dog: If Fire/Leaf loses a pokemon battle the Nurse Joy will encourage them and ask them to come again at anytime.

Source: Video Game / Pokémon False Red

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