Encourage
Encourage verb - To fill with courage or strength of purpose.
Win and encourage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Win" instead a verb "Encourage".
Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging
Win
Win verb - To achieve victory (as in a contest).
Common collocations
| loyalty | encourage loyalty | win loyalty |
| respect | encourage respect | win respect |
| way | encourage way | win way |
| competition | encourage competition | win competition |
| Other words: races. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Naturally Tippy wants Chino to win, and Cocoa wants Chiya to win, and both "encourage" their respective players so much that the two can't play very well.
Source: Manga / Is the Order a Rabbit? - The players can only win or lose together, but some elements of the game (like explicitly keeping individual scores) encourage competition among them.
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And the rules even encourage taunting them if you win this way, because it's just unlikely to ever actually happen.
Source: I Shall Taunt You
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