Encourage and Rear

Encourage

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

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Rear and encourage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rear" instead a verb "Encourage".

Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging

Rear verb - To bring to maturity through care and education.

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Encourage and rear are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Encourage" instead a verb "Rear".

Nearby Words: rearmost, rearwards, rearward, rearer

children	encourage children	rear children
daughter	encourage daughter	rear daughter

That, and the front ranks could be easily allowed to retreat to the rear for a break while fresher troops stepped up (also, the knowledge that if they can survive the first 2 minutes of a battle, they would be rotated out to safety goes a long way to encourage the front rankers to fight harder).

Source: Victory by Endurance

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