<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence: His courage inspired his followers.</li><li>to produce or arouse (a feeling, thought, etc.): to inspire confidence in others.</li><li>to fill or affect with a specified feeling, thought, etc.: to inspire a person with distrust.</li><li>to influence or impel: Competition inspired her to greater efforts.</li><li>to animate, as an influence, feeling, thought, or the like, does: They were inspired by a belief in a better future.</li><li>to communicate or suggest by a divine or supernatural influence: writings inspired by God.</li><li>to guide or control by divine influence.</li><li>to prompt or instigate (utterances, acts, etc.) by influence, without avowal of responsibility.</li><li>to give rise to, bring about, cause, etc.: a philosophy that inspired a revolution.</li><li>to take (air, gases, etc.) into the lungs in breathing; inhale.</li><li>Archaic. to infuse (breath, life, etc.) by breathing (usually followed by into).</li><li>to breathe into or upon.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>