Meaning & use
inspire
To fill someone with the desire or confidence to do or create something.
See it in a sentence
Her courage inspired the whole team to keep pushing through the difficult project.
The old photographs inspired him to start writing about his grandfather's life.
A note on using this word
Inspire usually takes a person as its object and is often followed by 'to' plus a verb, as in 'inspire someone to act.'
Words with a similar meaning
motivateencourage
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