Encourage and Protest

Encourage

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

Protest is an antonym for encourage in help topic.

Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging

Protest

Protest verb - To state as a fact usually forcefully.

Encourage is an antonym for protest.

Common collocations

sort encourage sort protest sort
use encourage use protest use
way encourage way protest way
behavior encourage behavior protest behavior

Both words in one sentence

  • Book Burning Scott Adams, on the other hand, gleefully takes the bookstores' more positive point of view in one of his books, offering to chip in a few bucks for markers and protest signs for anyone who finds him offensive, as protests and burnings will encourage bigger sales for his books.
    Source: Book Burning
  • Obstructive Bureaucrat Source materials encourage this, even suggesting a GM may send forms other than what players requested and then execute them for treason if they fail to fill them out correctly or protest that they got the wrong ones.
  • Music / Tears for Fears Protest Song: "Shout" is a bit of a meta example; the lyrics themselves don't actually protest anything in particular, but they encourage protest.
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