v.
- fill with the urge or ability to do or feel something.
▸create (a feeling) in a person.
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(inspire someone with)
animate someone with (a feeling).
- give rise to.
- inhale.
Derivative
- inspirer n.
- inspiring adj.
- inspiringly adv.
Etymology
ME enspire, from OFr. inspirer, from L. inspirare ‘breathe or blow into’.