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US
/ˈmoʊtəˌveɪt/
]
[ UK /mˈəʊtɪvˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /mˈəʊtɪvˌeɪt/ ]
VERB
-
give an incentive for action
This moved me to sacrifice my career
How To Use motivate In A Sentence
- Examinations do not motivate a student to seek more knowledge.
- The company says it “would be elated to have a personable, motivated self-starter such as yourself join our team of merry pornstars.” Will Ferrell First Guest On “The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien”
- Apathetic patients become unmotivated and uninterested in their surroundings.
- Many say a sense of sisterhood motivates them to protect other mothers from the fear and pain they have faced.
- Nothing demotivates people like the equal treatment of unequals.
- The shame of NOT celebrating something I've informed my readers about motivates me not to forget the date--a form of precommitment! Zoe P. Strassfield: Plans and Precommitment: 2012 in Space!
- She was motivated by deep religious conviction.
- Instead, they got Richards to acknowledge that a motivated forger with advanced technology could fool even veteran photo analysts.
- The teacher all he could to motivate the students to study hard.
- Takla Haymanot of Gojjam, another of John's powerful and ambitious subjects, was also motivated solely by self-interest.