Encourage
Encourage verb - To fill with courage or strength of purpose.
Start and encourage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Start" instead a verb "Encourage".
Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging
Common collocations
| character | encourage character | start character |
| work | encourage work | start work |
| people | encourage people | start people |
| relationship | encourage relationship | start relationship |
| Other words: way. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Despite a rough start, he learns to channel their instincts into productive tasks, so Stoick puts Hiccup in charge of a new dragon academy to encourage this behavior.
- Princess Celestia anticipated this from the start, and actually helped to encourage it.
Source: Dragon with an Agenda -
It backfires, as not only does it encourage Clarence more, the other kids start enjoying it too, until the teachers confiscate them all.
Source: Western Animation / Clarence
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