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UK
/ɪnspˈaɪə/
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[ US /ˌɪnˈspaɪɹ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈspaɪɹ/ ]
VERB
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heighten or intensify
These paintings exalt the imagination -
serve as the inciting cause of
She prompted me to call my relatives -
draw in (air)
inhale the fresh mountain air
Inhale deeply
The lung cancer patient cannot inspire air very well
The patient has trouble inspiring -
spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers - fill with revolutionary ideas
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supply the inspiration for
The article about the artist inspired the exhibition of his recent work
How To Use inspire In A Sentence
- Petanque may be the only sport inspired by a disability - that of Jules LeNoir, who in 1910 was a dedicated player of boules, a French game much like bocce ball.
- Pearce , a Zimbabwean architect living in Melbourne, has been inspired by the humble termite.
- Clearly the megalosaurus in the opening passage of Bleak House is a flight of hyperbolic fancy (inspired, I would guess, by the papier-mâché dinosaurs constructed for the Crystal Palace Exhibition, a couple of years earlier).
- Spin, the tracks were mostly inspired by surfing, except for the instrumental "Lady Dada's Nightmare", which is an homage to Lady Gaga, and the title track, which is about "the world economic crisis. Pitchfork: Latest News
- He was a true person and he inspired love in his friends. Times, Sunday Times
- The writings of a great amoralist - a de Sade, a Stirner, a Nietzsche - can inspire a handful of murders in two centuries.
- Baker, while on a visit to Göttingen, was inspired by Klein to study algebraic function theory.
- Perhaps inspired by the elegant Georgian style houses he recalled from his boyhood in Haverhill, Massachusetts, he trimmed his two-story clapboarded house with quoins and a cornice with dentils.
- Inspired by the intrepid babushka, I overcame the inbred fear of Russian salesmen and requested that my order be warmed as well.
- Activists who have fought land rights battles inspired by the Constitution are a weary, dispirited lot.