verb
- Heighten or intensify.
- usage: "These paintings exalt the imagination"
- synonyms: animate, invigorate, enliven, exalt
- Supply the inspiration for.
- usage: "The article about the artist inspired the exhibition of his recent work"
- Serve as the inciting cause of.
- usage: "She prompted me to call my relatives"
- Spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts.
- usage: "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers"
- Fill with revolutionary ideas.
- synonyms: revolutionize, revolutionise
- Draw in (air. )
- usage: "Inhale deeply"; "inhale the fresh mountain air"; "The patient has trouble inspiring"; "The lung cancer patient cannot inspire air very well"
- synonyms: inhale, breathe in
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