Synonyms:
inspire, animate, invigorate, enliven, exalt
Meaning: heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"
Synonyms:
inspire
Meaning: supply the inspiration for; "The article about the artist inspired the exhibition of his recent work"
Synonyms:
prompt, inspire, instigate
Meaning: serve as the inciting cause of; "She prompted me to call my relatives"
Synonyms:
cheer, root_on, inspire, urge, barrack, urge_on, exhort, pep_up
Meaning: spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts; "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers"
Usage examples
No doubt he knows the desperate nature of the attack, and would inspire them.
"I was unfortunate enough," she continued, "to inspire him with love, and he postponed his departure.
A sight was there awaiting them, calculated to inspire all three with the most terrible apprehensions.
He suffered with great patience, making no complaint, and endeavouring to inspire us with hope in every manner he could devise.
Every line of his upstanding figure denoted confidence--a confidence that was to inspire all America, and then the world itself, in this choice of leader.
I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred.
To inspire esteem and consideration, is then the grand object of propriety of conduct; for without this treasure, the relations of society would be a humiliation and punishment.
I was overwhelmed with horror at the merciless destruction of brave comrades, whose wounds, so gallantly received, should have been enough to inspire pity even in a heart of stone.
"A knight," said Miss Drew, who was struggling to inspire her class with enthusiasm for Tennyson's "Idylls of the King," "a knight was a person who spent his time going round succouring the oppressed."
Your assumption of being able to instruct or lead or inspire a multitude or even a small group of people may appall you as being colossal impudence--as indeed it may be; but having once essayed to speak, be courageous.