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emboldened

[ em-bohl-dnd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

made bold or bolder; given the courage or nerve to do something daring, challenging, or controversial:
It was unclear whether the missile fire was the work of an emboldened rebel force, the military, or some mixture of both.

The more we appease, the more we indulge, the more emboldened the enemies of freedom become.

Spirits in Stanleyville were high, and a local 19-year-old was emboldened by independence fever.

Some of this, she suspects, is because gay men have been emboldened by their sexual outsider status.

They also emboldened the Kurdish defenders, who are lightly armed and fending off heavy armor.

They will be emboldened in their tactics and will only demand more and more.

Some of his comments on Homer Smith were not very complimentary, and this emboldened Eloise to tell him who her real father was.

Her favourable looks emboldened him to speak; and after the formal salutation, "Great Queen, live for ever!"

Verily, the spirit of that Filipina in an American would have emboldened her to wear—bloomers?

At length, emboldened by the long and patient watchfulness of his enemies, the Huron attempted a better and more fatal aim.

But instead of disconcerting, that inquiring gaze rather emboldened me.

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