(~s, inspiring, ~d)
1.
If someone or something ~s you to do something new or unusual, they make you want to do it.
Our challenge is to motivate those voters and ~ them to join our cause...
VERB: V n to-inf
2.
If someone or something ~s you, they give you new ideas and a strong feeling of enthusiasm.
Jimi Hendrix ~d a generation of guitarists.
VERB: V n
3.
If a book, work of art, or action is ~d by something, that thing is the source of the idea for it.
The book was ~d by a real person, namely Tamara de Treaux.
...a political murder ~d by the same nationalist conflicts now wrecking the country.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed by n, V-ed
-~d
...Mediterranean-~d ceramics in bright yellow and blue...
COMB in ADJ
4.
Someone or something that ~s a particular emotion or reaction in people makes them feel this emotion or reaction.
The car’s performance quickly ~s confidence.
VERB: V n