Synset
spur on
<verb.communication>
freq. cnt.: 1
freq. cnt.: 1
encourage
sample sentences
"His financial success encouraged him to look for a wife"
verb frames
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
They %s him to write the letter
semantic pointers
hypernym
make, cause, have, get, induce, stimulate