Motivate and Support

Motivate

Motivate verb - Give an incentive for action.

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Support and motivate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Support" instead a verb "Motivate".

Support verb - To promote the interests or cause of.

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Motivate and support are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Motivate" instead a verb "Support".

friend	motivate friend	support friend
people	motivate people	support people
children	motivate children	support children
army	motivate army	support army
Other words: actions, son, forces, friends, members.

Along the way, Seabreeze shows what he has learned from Fluttershy, using encouragement and support rather than insults to motivate the struggling Breezies.

Source: Recap / My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S4 E16 "It Ain't Easy Being Breezies"
Reds: In order to better motivate a crowd of Muslims to support the Bolsheviks, Zinoviev uses this trope to replace Reed's call to class war with a call to jihad.

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Snowball Fight Something Completely Different: The 1942 Any Bonds Today is only 1 minute and 38 seconds long and is in essence a propaganda short where Bugs, Porky and Elmer Fudd sing and dance to motivate people to buy war bonds to support the war effort.

Source: Western Animation / Looney Tunes

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