But no evidence suggests that she courted danger for her children as she encouraged their freedom.Damp conditions encourage the growth of the fungus.The popularity of organised tours visiting the Balearics and the interest of the locals has encouraged the club to expand.Cigarette machines in the streets will only encourage more teenagers to smoke.
We want to encourage more children to use the library.I would never have won if my friends hadn't encouraged me to keep trying.Patricia encouraged me to apply for the job.Her letters really encouraged me throughout my illness.Congress is considering tax breaks to encourage investment.Her parents encouraged her to cook and even paid her to make dinner twice a week.She was always looking for ways to encourage her students.This insurance plan will be too hard to administer and will encourage fraud.Avoid spraying your plants with pesticides, grow plants that encourage beneficial insects such as carrots, parsley, parsnips and nettles.→ See Verb table Examples from the Corpus encourage encouraged adjective She felt encouraged by the many letters of support.
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► see thesaurus at persuade 3 HELP to make something more likely to exist, happen, or develop Violent TV programmes encourage anti-social behaviour. encourage somebody to do something A 10p rise in cigarette prices is not enough to encourage smokers to stop. 2 to persuade someone to do something OPP discourage Cantor didn’t mind if they worked late in fact, he actively encouraged it. encourage somebody in something Fleur encouraged Dana in her ambition to become a model.
encourage somebody to do something Cooder was encouraged to begin playing the guitar by his father.
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