verb
ADVERB
▪ greatly , highly ( AmE ), strongly
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We were greatly ~d by the support we received.
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Speaking your mind is highly ~d at these sessions.
▪ especially , particularly
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She especially ~d young scientists.
▪ actively , positively
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The government must actively ~ investment in these areas.
▪ deliberately , explicitly , openly
▪ inadvertently , unwittingly
VERB + ENCOURAGE
▪ aim to , try to , want to
▪ be designed to
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These questions are designed to ~ debate.
▪ be likely to
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Newspapers should not publish material that is likely to ~ discrimination.
PREPOSITION
▪ in
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Her head of department ~d her in her research work.
PHRASES
▪ an attempt to ~ sth , an effort to ~ sth
Encourage is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ aggression , ↑ awareness , ↑ belief , ↑ bloom , ↑ competition , ↑ confidence , ↑ consumption , ↑ conversation , ↑ cooperation , ↑ creation , ↑ creativity , ↑ debate , ↑ development , ↑ dialogue , ↑ discussion , ↑ diversity , ↑ emergence , ↑ engagement , ↑ enquiry , ↑ enterprise , ↑ establishment , ↑ expansion , ↑ export , ↑ flexibility , ↑ flow , ↑ growth , ↑ idea , ↑ immigrant , ↑ immigration , ↑ improvement , ↑ independence , ↑ industry , ↑ initiative , ↑ innovation , ↑ integration , ↑ investment , ↑ investor , ↑ move , ↑ participation , ↑ partnership , ↑ practice , ↑ production , ↑ reflection , ↑ reform , ↑ reliance , ↑ research , ↑ shopper , ↑ speculation , ↑ spread , ↑ student , ↑ submission , ↑ teamwork , ↑ thinking , ↑ tourism , ↑ use , ↑ value , ↑ violence , ↑ wildlife