inspire🔊

To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.

To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to.

To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.

To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.

(archaic) To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.

To spread rumour indirectly.