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English
Etymology
From heart + -en.
Pronunciation
Verb
hearten (third-person singular simple present heartens, present participle heartening, simple past and past participle heartened)
- (transitive) To give heart to; to encourage, urge on, cheer, give confidence to.
- Antonym: dishearten
Derived terms
Translations
to give heart to, to encourage
- Bulgarian: насърчавам (bg) (nasǎrčavam), окуражавам (bg) (okuražavam)
- Dutch: bemoedigen (nl)
- Esperanto: kuraĝigi
- Finnish: kannustaa (fi), rohkaista (fi)
- French: encourager (fr)
- German: ermutigen (de)
- Hungarian: bátorít (hu), buzdít (hu)
- Italian: rincuorare (it), incoraggiare (it)
- Macedonian: бодри (bodri)
- Portuguese: animar (pt)
- Russian: воодушевля́ть (ru) impf (vooduševljátʹ), воодушеви́ть (ru) pf (vooduševítʹ); вдохновля́ть (ru) impf (vdoxnovljátʹ), вдохнови́ть (ru) pf (vdoxnovítʹ); ободря́ть (ru) impf (obodrjátʹ), ободри́ть (ru) pf (obodrítʹ); подба́дривать (ru) impf (podbádrivatʹ), подбодря́ть (ru) impf (podbodrjátʹ), подбодри́ть (ru) pf (podbodrítʹ)
- Spanish: alentar (es), animar (es)
- Swedish: uppmuntra (sv)
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