DISCOURAGE Antonyms

• give encouragement to

• heighten or intensify

• supply the inspiration for

• serve as the inciting cause of

• spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

• fill with revolutionary ideas

• draw in (air)

• heighten or intensify

• give life or energy to

• make lively

• impart vigor, strength, or vitality to

• give an incentive for action

• the act of applying force in order to move something away

• the force used in pushing

• enterprising or ambitious drive

• an electrical switch operated by pressing

• an effort to advance

• move with force

• press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action

• make publicity for; try to sell (a product)

• strive and make an effort to reach a goal

• press against forcefully without moving

• approach a certain age or speed

• exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for

• sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs)

• move strenuously and with effort

• make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby

• a large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm

• the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort

• a marked recovery of strength or spirits during an illness

• an automobile race run over public roads

• (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes

• gather

• call to arms; of military personnel

• gather or bring together

• return to a former condition

• harass with persistent criticism or carping

• a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something

• any sharply pointed projection

• tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers

• a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward

• a railway line connected to a trunk line

• incite or stimulate

• give heart or courage to

• strike with a spur

• goad with spurs

• equip with spurs

• act as a stimulant

• cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner

• stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of

• cause to be alert and energetic

• cause to occur rapidly

• stir feelings in

• provide the needed stimulus for

• (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)

• a brassiere that lifts and supports the breasts

• fill with high spirits; fill with optimism

• lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces

• lift up or elevate