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Word entry · 7 letters

inspire

Best crossword clue

"Spark motivation"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ɪnˈspaɪə(ɹ)/Part of speech verbSorted eiinprsStarts with IEnds with E2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Fill someone with motivation, ideas, or feeling.

Word origin

From Middle English inspiren, enspiren, from Old French inspirer, variant of espirer, from Latin īnspīrāre (“inspire”), itself a loan-translation of Biblical Ancient Greek πνέω (pnéō, “breathe”), from in + spīrō (“breathe”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys- (“to blow, breathe”). Displaced native Old English onbryrdan (literally “to prick in”).

Used in a sentence

  • Dawning day new comfort hath inspired.
  • He knew not his Maker, and him that inspired into him an active soul.
  • […] and whose example of reverence and devotion was so well calculated to inspire confidence and attachment in every class of the community?

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Spark motivation7 letters
02Fill with motivation7 letters

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