Usually means: Stimulate someone to do something.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. inspire: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. inspire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inspire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inspire: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inspire: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inspire, inspire: Wordnik
  7. inspire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inspire: Wiktionary
  9. inspire: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inspire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inspire: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. inspire: Dictionary.com
  13. inspire: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Inspire (Casiopea album), Inspire (Jack Vidgen album), Inspire (company), Inspire (magazine), Inspire (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Inspire: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. inspire: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. inspire: Rhymezone
  18. inspire: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. inspire: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. INSPIRE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. inspire: Free Dictionary
  22. inspire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. inspire: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inspire: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inspire: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. inspire: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. INSPIRE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. inspire: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inspire: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. INSPIRE: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
verb:  (transitive) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to.
verb:  (intransitive) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
verb:  To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
verb:  (archaic, transitive) To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
verb:  (transitive) To spread rumour indirectly.

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