Encourage
Encourage verb - To rouse to strong feeling or action.
Usage example: the movie's cheap special effects will not encourage audiences to sit on the edge of their seats but to roll in the aisles with laughter
Trigger and encourage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Trigger" instead a verb "Encourage".
Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging
Mutual synonyms
Common collocations
| development | encourage development | trigger development |
Both words in one sentence
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Chrono Trigger and games like it, not only encourage some degree of sequence breaking, but reward it.
Source: Sequence Breaking -
Though subverted, because he knows that it will trigger admiration and sympathy in others, who will encourage him to take it easy for a while, which he will grudgingly go along with while inwardly reflecting that he just manipulated them into letting him stay out of danger without losing face.
Source: Literature / Ciaphas Cain
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