Encourage
Encourage verb - To fill with courage or strength of purpose.
Question and encourage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Question" instead a verb "Encourage".
Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging
Common collocations
| loyalty | encourage loyalty | question loyalty |
| person | encourage person | question person |
| character | encourage character | question character |
| people | encourage people | question people |
| Other words: relationship, someone, way, characters. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- As your leader, I encourage you from time to time, and always in a respectful manner, to question my logic.
Source: Thrown from the Zeppelin -
O-Ren: As your leader, I encourage you, from time to time and always in a respectful manner, to question my logic.
Source: Sophisticated as Hell - In Bad Company 2 some players encourage the use of Tracer Darts on their fellow Recons that tend to camp during objective based game types (usually when the Recon in question is on Attacker).
Source: Video Game / Battlefield
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