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(adj)
(comparative form of far) More distant; relatively distant.
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(v)
To help the progress of (something); to further.
(transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
(transitive, by extension) To help or encourage (something) to increase or improve; to assist in overcoming obstacles.
Effectively providing an incentive.
(transitive) To give heart to; to encourage, urge on, cheer, give confidence to.
To operate a vehicle:
(n)
Words or actions that increase someone's confidence
Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.
(transitive) To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage; to actuate.
(transitive) To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
The action of saying something to persuade, encourage, or remind someone to do or say something.
(transitive, crime) To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime.
(transitive) To make more lively, cheerful or interesting.
(transitive, business, economics) To provide incentives for; to encourage.
(transitive) To impart vigor, strength, or vitality to.
(transitive) To give spirit or vigour to; to stimulate or enliven; to inspirit.
To encourage into action.
(transitive) To bring about by urging or encouraging.
(transitive) To cause, bring about, lead to.
(transitive) To have an effect on by using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to persuade or induce.
(transitive) To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify.
(transitive) To invigorate; to make energetic.
(transitive) To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence.
(ambitransitive) To cause to be more lively, or to become more lively.
To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.
(transitive) To force, constrain, or coerce.
To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.
To render (someone) bolder or more courageous; to encourage, to hearten.
A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal way.
(transitive) To call into action.
(transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
To make easy or easier.
A cheer.
A strong desire; an itch to do something.
(uncountable) A cheerful attitude; happiness; a good, happy, or positive mood.
Expressing or indicating favour or goodwill; approving, encouraging.
An activity causing excitement or pleasure; the act of stimulating.
Having a manner that stimulates; serving to stimulate.
(transitive) To strengthen, especially by addition or augmentation.
(transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
(transitive) To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.
(transitive) To be or to provide a benefit to.
(ambitransitive) To try to find; to look for; to search for.
(transitive) To drive forward; to propel an object, to provide an impetus for motion or action.
(transitive) To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something).
Tending to engage attention or interest; engrossing, interesting; enthralling.
(transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
(transitive) To bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
(transitive) To help keep from falling.
That supports.
(copulative) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
(transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).
The act by which something is furthered; furtherance.
British standard spelling of favor.
(transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or physical action; to cause to move in a certain direction; to drive or push forward.
(transitive) To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
(transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.
Tending to contribute to, encourage, or bring about some result.
Dissemination of information in order to increase its popularity.
(transitive) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
(intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.
(transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
The act of proceeding forward; an advance.
To help.
The act or process by which something is boosted.
The act of one who abets.
That induces; inductive
(transitive) To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or self-doubt.
(transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).
(transitive) To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
(transitive, catenative) To permit, to give permission to.
The act of one who solicits.
(transitive) To begin; to start.
(ambitransitive) To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole.
(transitive) To cause a quality to become part of someone's nature.
(transitive) To create.
(physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
To request or petition.
(transitive) To initiate; to cause or lead to.
To urge; to advise earnestly.
The process by which something is instilled.
(transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
(ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
To augment or make something greater.
(transitive) To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.
(transitive) To express support or approval, especially officially or publicly; to give an endorsement.
That entices; alluring; attractive; charming
(intransitive) To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
(transitive) To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
(transitive) To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure.
(transitive) To attract by temptation, appeal, or guile.
(transitive) To explicitly mention (something) as a possibility for consideration, often to recommend it.
(transitive) To give a reward to or for.
(intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
(transitive) To set off an event or action; to bring about; to produce.