Encourage and Train

Encourage

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

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

Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging

Train verb - To bring to a proper or desired state of fitness.

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Encourage and train are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Encourage" instead a verb "Train".

Nearby Words: trained, training, trainee, trainer, trainband

character	encourage character	train character
people	encourage people	train people
men	encourage men	train men
children	encourage children	train children
Other words: someone, army, way, characters, anyone, son, daughter, women, kids, students, members, soldiers, heroes, girls.

However, these defeats only temporarily discourage Ash, and instead are used to encourage him to keep going and train harder.

Source: Champions on the Inside
Instead, I will encourage and/or train The Hero to this end.

Source: Just For Fun / The Universal Genre Savvy Guide
Anti-Grinding: Despite having a lot of things that encourage players to grind, straying out of the main quest to train adds more turns to the total count, which will result some events and characters to be blocked or lost permanently.

Source: Video Game / Agarest Senki

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