Encourage and Refrain

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Encourage

Encourage verb - To fill with courage or strength of purpose.
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Antonyms for Encourage
Refrain is an antonym for encourage.
Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging

Refrain

Refrain verb - Resist doing something.
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Synonyms for Refrain
Antonyms for Refrain
Encourage is an antonym for refrain in do without topic.
Nearby Words: refrained, refraining
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Common collocations

enemy encourage enemy refrain enemy
daughter encourage daughter refrain daughter

Both words in one sentence

  • Advocates admit that this goal is an ideal rather than any realistic expectation for the future, but still encourage people to refrain from breeding on environmental grounds.
    Source: Apocalypse How / Class 3b
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Antonyms for encourage


Antonyms for refrain

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