inspire

Verb

• draw in (air)
  • Inhale deeply
    
  • inhale the fresh mountain air
    
  • The patient has trouble inspiring
    
  • The lung cancer patient cannot inspire air very well
    

• fill with revolutionary ideas

• spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
  • The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers
    

• serve as the inciting cause of
  • She prompted me to call my relatives
    

• supply the inspiration for
  • The article about the artist inspired the exhibition of his recent work
    

• heighten or intensify
  • These paintings exalt the imagination
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  inhale , breathe in , revolutionize , revolutionise , cheer , root on , urge , barrack , urge on , exhort , pep up , prompt , instigate , animate , invigorate , enliven , exalt
• Antonyms: 
  exhale , expire , breathe out