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animō — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • encourage verb To give someone confidence, support, or hope.
  • raise verb To move or lift something to a higher position.
  • revive verb To bring someone back to consciousness or restore them to health.
  • strengthen verb To make something stronger, more solid, or more effective.

Senses

animō is used for these senses in English:

  • encourage To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
  • raise (figurative) To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
  • revitalise To give new life, energy, activity or success to something.
  • revive To cause (a person or animal) to recover from a faint; to cause (a person or animal) to return to a state of consciousness.
  • revive To cause (something) to recover from a state of decline, neglect, oblivion, or obscurity; to make (something) active or lively again; to reanimate, to revitalize.
  • strengthen (transitive) To empower; to give moral strength to; to encourage; to enhearten.

raise — full definition

  1. verb To move or lift something to a higher position.
  2. verb To increase the amount, level, or intensity of something.
  3. verb To bring up and care for a child, or to breed and tend animals or crops, until they are grown.
  4. verb To bring up a subject, question, or objection for discussion.
  5. noun An increase in salary or pay.

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