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embolden
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to fill with courage or strength of purpose
- His poor showing in his first swim meet just emboldened him to train even harder.
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encourage, inspirit, hearten, embolden mean to fill with courage or strength of purpose. encourage suggests the raising of one's confidence especially by an external agency.
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- the teacher's praise encouraged the students to greater efforts
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- patriots inspirited the people to resist
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- a hospital patient heartened by good news
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- emboldened by her first success, she tried an even more difficult climb
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