motivate

IPA: mˈoʊtʌveɪt

(transitive) To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage.
(transitive) To animate; to propel; to cause to take action

Examples of "motivate" in Sentences

Rarely does a title motivate and inspire me as Having It All has.
Will FEU's second place win motivate them to work harder to win it next year?
You may find it increasingly difficult toward the end of your term to motivate yourself to exercise.
I could be wrong, but it seems to make more sense to me that coins motivate more reliably than complaints.
"The importance of motivation is that it gets you to self motivate, which is the behavior that matters in weight loss," Webber explained.
If I really wanted to learn how to orate in motivate people and get to know and understand the culture of my ethnic origin but wasn't ever exposed to .......
That’s also a healthy increase over the 525 HP the M156 normally develops and all it has to motivate is a 3,571 Lbs curb weight gull-winged bird of prey (703 Lbs lighter than the SL63 and 326 Lbs lighter than the SLR thanks to an aluminum chassis and body).