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Meanings of motivate in English

Portuguese
motivar
Spanish
motivar

Give an incentive for action.

        motivar

        To mentally support.

              Usage of motivate in English
              1
              I try to motivate everybody, let them know that anything is possible.
              Reuters
              2
              Principals motivate colleagues, create a supportive learning environment and provide instructional leadership.
              The Irish Times
              3
              There wouldn't be any need to motivate everyone to keep working quickly.
              Perilous Shield
              4
              Bloomberg insiders say Fenwick used fear as a tactic to motivate people.
              Reuters
              5
              Fire!-sadlythe surest way to motivate citizens to make a 911 call.
              Heat Wave
              6
              Motivation The app finds new ways to motivate you at every turn.
              The Irish Times
              7
              They need to spread out, meet people, motivate them, bring them in.
              Radio NZ
              8
              So I'm certainly focused on that. That threat will inevitably motivate McIlroy.
              The Guardian
              9
              This means that I don't have to use grades to motivate them.
              Wired
              10
              At least now we know how kamikaze pilots managed to motivate themselves.
              The Guardian
              11
              He integrates the online world in his teaching to motivate his students.
              The Online World
              12
              The intervention utilises a three-tiered accreditation framework designed to motivate intervention implementation.
              Pubmed
              13
              Visit the Workhuman Cloud and motivate your team with meaningful human connections.
              The Irish Times
              14
              To chronicle the heroic emotions that motivate men is a fine task.
              Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl
              15
              Such frightening thoughts might have been by themselves enough to motivate him.
              Jitterbug Perfume
              16
              I was hoping it would motivate me to exercise but it hasn't.
              The Irish Times
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              Translations for motivate
              Motivate through the time
              Motivate across language varieties
              Ireland
              Common
              United States of America
              Common
              United Kingdom
              Less common