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Definition of inspire : 1. To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
2. To breathe; to blow gently.
3. To draw in breath; to inhale air into the lungs; - opposed to expire.
4. To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale; - opposed to expire.
5. To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
6. To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
7. To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens, or exalts; to communicate inspiration to; as, to inspire a child with sentiments of virtue.

Synonyms:

illuminate, juice up, color, revive, jazz up, inspirit, advocate, spur, enthuse, exhilarate, thrill, skew, revolutionise, actuate, quicken, raise, help, stir, jolly along, interest, liven up, animise, invoke, happy, invigorate, touch, press, uplift, stir up, glorify, vivify, arouse, capture someone's interest/imagination/attention, pep up, work up, liven, recommend, nurture, influence, breathe, pique, reinvigorate, scoff, dazzle, grip, steel, barrack, renovate, root on, incite, extol, jeer, enkindle, gibe, buck up, repair, breath, revivify, rouse, exalt, bear up, breathe in, intrigue, flush, pack a punch, animate, overturn, embolden, attract, have, revolutionize, catch, chirk, prick, touch off, elevate, inflame, illume, jolly up, decide, beatify, educate, buoy, laud, chirk up, spark, excite, elate, cheer up, cue, ginger up, kindle, urge on, affect, set off, proclaim, recreate, inebriate, lead to, impassion, flout, egg on, illumine, lift, galvanize, awaken, exhort, animize, fire someone with enthusiasm, edify, give, remind, tickle pink, reanimate, ignite

enforce, force, give rise to, cause, evoke, provoke, make, drive, bring about, generate, produce, effect, engender, act, elicit, motivate, induce, originate, execute, engineer

jolt, prompt, shove, pitch, entice, shoot, nudge, hasten, catapult, hurl, propel, stimulate, urge, fire, lob, strike, impel, instigate, push, hurtle, punch, heave, knock, magnetize, throw, jog, move, jerk, foment, energize, trigger, ram, thrust, jostle, bump, ferment, prod, fling, goad, launch, sling, poke

devour, admit, pocket, ingest, gulp, accept, engorge, absorb, assimilate, eat, swallow, gobble, get, access, take, inhale, receive, acquire

encourage, brighten, hearten, enliven, gladden, lighten, cheer, console, please

Usage examples:

• Inspire him with devotion to the holy order. - "Old Fritz and the New Era", Louise Muhlbach.
• 259.- The pleasure of love is in loving, we are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire. - "Reflections Or, Sentences and Moral Maxims", Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld.
• Perhaps that was what she would still be- with those of his present hour; now too they might inspire her with the touch she best applied and was most instinctive mistress of: this didn't at all events strike him as what he should most resent. - "The Finer Grain", Henry James.