Usually means: Encourage, give support or confidence.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. hearten: Merriam-Webster
  2. hearten: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hearten: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hearten: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hearten: Vocabulary.com
  6. hearten: Wordnik
  7. hearten: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hearten: Wiktionary
  9. hearten: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hearten: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hearten: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hearten, hearten: Dictionary.com
  13. hearten: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Hearten: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. hearten: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. hearten: Rhymezone
  17. Hearten: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. hearten: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. hearten: FreeDictionary.org
  20. hearten: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. hearten: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. hearten: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hearten: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hearten)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To give heart to; to encourage, urge on, cheer, give confidence to.

Similar:
embolden, recreate, cheer, heart, enhearten, harten, inheart, strengthen, buck up, encourage, more...

Opposite:
dishearten, demoralize, discourage, dismay

Types:
encouragement, more...

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Similar:
embolden, recreate, cheer, heart, enhearten, harten, inheart, strengthen, buck up, encourage, more...

Opposite:
dishearten, demoralize, discourage, dismay

Types:
encouragement, more...



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