воодушевля́ть — meaning in English

English meaning

• cheer noun A shout of approval, encouragement, or celebration.
• encourage verb To give someone confidence, support, or hope.
• hearten verb To make someone feel more confident, cheerful or encouraged.
• inspire verb To fill someone with the motivation or creative energy to do something.

Senses

воодушевля́ть is used for these senses in English:

• cheer (ambitransitive) To applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts.
• cheer up (transitive, idiomatic) To make someone happier or less downcast.
• encourage To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
• hearten (transitive) To give heart to; to encourage, urge on, cheer, give confidence to.
• inspire (transitive) 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.
• inspire (transitive) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to.
• lift up (transitive) To exalt the mood of someone.

cheer — full definition

1. noun A shout of approval, encouragement, or celebration.
2. noun A feeling of happiness or good spirits.
3. verb To shout in support or approval of someone.
4. verb To make someone happier, often with "up".

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