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exhort

verb

ɪɡˈzɔːrt

Meaning

To strongly encourage or urge someone to do something.

The teacher exhorted students to work hard for exams.

The teacher exhorted the students to study harder.

exhort to action

urge, encourage, advise, press, persuade

Entry 1

urge, encourage, advise

Entry 2

urge, encourage, advise, press, persuade

discourage, dissuade, restrain

Entry 1

discourage, dissuade, restrain

Entry 2

dissuade, discourage

exhort someone to, exhort the crowd, exhort the team

Extend the application of something to an unknown situation by assuming that existing trends will co...

To give support, confidence, or hope to someone.

To combine and strengthen; to make firm and stable by bringing together.

to eat or drink; to use up; to destroy completely

To combine different substances or elements together.

to collect or gather with a rake; to scrape or smooth a surface