hearten
pronunciation
How to pronounce hearten in British English:
UK [ˈhɑ:tn]
How to pronounce hearten in American English:
US [ˈhɑrtn]
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- Verb:
- give encouragement to
Word Origin
- hearten (v.)
- 1520s, "put heart into" (transitive), from heart (n.) in the figurative sense + -en (1). Intransitive sense "to cheer up" is from 1708. Related: Heartened; heartening. Earlier verb was simply heart (Old English).
Antonym
Example
- 1. I heard drum filled with hearten and strength .
- 2. In a move that will hearten dissidents , italy has taken the strongest stance yet against the regime .
- 3. Aromatherapy in addition to relax , hearten spirit , different kinds of aroma , as well as a variety of beauty , prevention and health care effect .
- 4. The true friend will direct and hearten you .
- 5. And what we can do is trustily record makes a person especially among them only the person that hearten perhaps makes a person gasp in admiration especially , understand the brand heat event of each phase in time with convenient and wide readership , thereby more pulse of market of press close to .