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Word: inspire
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Meaning:
Verb:
- archaic transitive To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
- intransitive To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
- To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
- 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.
- 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.
- transitive To spread rumour indirectly.
Source: Wiktionary
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