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heart·en 
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| to give courage or confidence to; cheer. |
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hearten
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| heart·en
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tr.v. heart·ened, heart·en·ing, heart·ens To give strength, courage, or hope to; encourage. See Synonyms at encourage. |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
| hearten | |
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| give encouragement to [syn: cheer] [ant: dishearten] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
ˈhearten verb
to encourage or cheer up
Example: We were greatly heartened by the good news.
See also: -hearted, at heart, break someone's heart, by heart, heart-warming, heartache, heartbeat, heartbreak, heartbroken, heartburn, heartfelt, heartless, hearty, heart-to-heart, from the bottom of one's heart, have a change of heart, have a heart!, have at heart, heart, heart and soul, heart attack, heart failure, hearts, lose heart, not have the heart to, set one's heart on / have one's heart set on, take heart, take to heart, to one's heart's content, with all one's heart, "hearten" in any languageExample: We were greatly heartened by the good news.
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Hearten
Heart"en\, v. t. [From Heart.]1. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. Hearten those that fight in your defense. --Shak. 2. To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
hearten
hearten: in CancerWEB's On-line Medical Dictionary
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