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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
inspire/ɪnˈspʌɪə(r)/
▶verb
  • 1 fill with the urge or ability to do or feel something.

    ■ create (a feeling) in a person.

    ■ (inspire someone with) animate someone with (a feeling).

  • 2 give rise to.
  • 3 inhale.
– derivatives
inspirer noun,
inspiring adjective,
inspiringly adverb.
– origin ME enspire, from OFr. inspirer, from L. inspirare ‘breathe or blow into’.



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