HOW TO PRONOUNCE
encourage
/ɛnˈkɝɪdʒ/
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What does encourage mean?
verb
- To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
- To spur on, strongly recommend.
- To foster, give help or patronage.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɛnˈkɝɪdʒ/
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Burma has been largely isolated from international economic forces and has been trying to encourage foreign investment, so far with little success.
I said nothing to encourage the poor fellow in that frightful state of scepticism which, if indulged, might end in positive infidelity.
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Lumberers have a notion that he is harmful to timber, digging little holes through the bark to encourage the settlement of insects.
The numerous hands employed in the one species of cultivation necessarily encourage the other, by affording a ready market for its produce.
Hearing that his people were besieged, he passed through the enemy’s army in disguise to go and encourage them with his presence.