Embolden

Definition: Embolden

Embolden

Verb

1. Give encouragement to.

Date "embolden" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Embolden \Em*bold"en\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Emboldened; present participle verb or noun Emboldening.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Embolden

Synonyms: cheer (v), hearten (v), recreate (v). (additional references)

Antonym: dishearten (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Courage	Give courage, infuse courage, inspire courage; reassure, encourage, embolden, inspirit, cheer, nerve, put upon one's mettle, rally, raise a rallying cry; pat on the back, make a man of., keep in countenance.
Hope	Give hope, inspire hope, raise hope, hold out hope; Noun: promise, bid fair, augur well, be in a fair way, look up, flatter, tell a flattering tale; raise expectations; encourage, cheer, assure, reassure, buoy up, embolden.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Embolden

English words defined with "embolden": Bolden ♦ Emboldening, Enharden, Enhearten ♦ Imbolden. (references)

Etymologies containing "embolden": Enharden. (references)

"Embolden" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Embolden" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	6	143,867

Language		Translations for "embolden"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		trimëroj, i jap guxim. (various references)

Arabic		‏جرأ, ‏شجع (animate, cheer, comfort, countenance, cultivate, encourage, feed, fortify, foster, hearten, inspirit, instigation, invite, nerve, promote, root, spur, support). (various references)

Bulgarian		окуражавам (buck up, encourage, fortify, hearten, inspire, man, nerve, reman), насърчавам (abet, encourage, favour, hearten, man, prompt, pull for, push, support, uphold). (various references)

Czech		povzbudit (buck up, cheer up, encourage, hearten, sharpen, spirit, stimulate, stir, whet), dodat komu odvahy. (various references)

Farsi		تشجیع کردن (Bield, Heart, Hearten, Solicit), جسورکردن . (various references)

Finnish		rohkaista (encourage). (various references)

French		enhardir, donner courage. (various references)

German		ermutigen (agitate, elate, encourage, excite, fortify, give courage, hearted, hearten, rouse, stir up, to comfort, to elate, to embolden, to encourage), mut machen (bolster). (various references)

Greek		ενθαρρύνω (abet, cheer, comfort, countenance, encourage, hearten, invite). (various references)

Hebrew		לפר�'ן (encourage, grant, man, reman), לעו�"�" (cheer, cheer up, encourage, hearten, invigorate, keep in countenance, man, nerve, spirit, strengthen), ל�"ר�"יב (astound, excite). (various references)

Hungarian		felbiztat (to goad), felbátorít (encourage, hearten, reassure, to embolden, to encourage, to hearten, to put on, to reassure). (various references)

Indonesian		memberanikan diri (brave, dare). (various references)

Italian		incoraggiare (animate, bear up, cheer, encourage, Foster, hearted, hearten, urge). (various references)

Manx		jannoo daaney, cur daanys er, cur creeaght ayn (encourage, fortify, reassure). (various references)

Pig Latin		emboldenay

Portuguese		incluir (add, add in, comprise, contain, count, embrace, enclose, inclose, include, including, number keys, take in, to include), animar (actuate, animate, assure, awake, awaken, be inspired, brighten, brisk, calorify, cheer, cherish, Chirk, comfort, encourage, enliven, ensue, exhilarated, flush, ginger, grandmotherly, hearten, heat, incite, inspirit, jazz, jolly, Kittle, liven, liven up, nerve, pep, perk, propellant, rally, rouse, smarten, spirit, stimulate, uphold, vitalize, vivify, warm). (various references)

Romanian		încuraja (buck up, cheer, countenance, elate, encourage, fire, hearten, inspire, inspirit, key up, nerve, pep, promote, reassure, stimulate, stomach, support, uphold). (various references)

Russian		ободрять (cheer, encourage, hearten), поощрять (cheer, encourage, place a premium, promote, put a premium). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ohrabriti (encourage, take courage). (various references)

Spanish		envalentonar, inspirar (carry away, inspire, prompt, upload), animar (abet, animate, brighten up, brisk, buck up, cheer, encourage, enliven, fan, fire, hearten, impel, inspire, inspirit, instigate, jazz, lift, liven, liven up, pep up, perk up, pull for, reman, rouse, spur on, stimulate, stir up, urge, urge on). (various references)

Swedish		inge mod (encourage). (various references)

Turkish		yüreklendirmek (exhort, hearten, root for), teşvik etmek (abet, cheer, cheer on, countenance, draw, egg, egg on, encourage, fillip, Foster, ginger, ginger up, give a fillip to, give countenance to, goad, goad on, incite, induce, inspirit, instigate, keep smb. in countenance, lend countenance to, lend wings to, prod, prompt, put a premium on, put smb. on his mettle, revitalize, set on, sharpen, spark, spoonfeed, spur, spur smb. on, stimulate, stir up, tickle up, urge), cesaret vermek (boost up smb.'s courage, buck smb. up, encourage, exhort, nerve, strengthen smb.'s hand, support, sustain). (various references)

Ukranian		заохочувати (countenance, nurse, prompt), підбадьорювати (bear up, bolden, cheer, encourage, enliven, hearten, jazz, pep up, reman). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "embolden": emboldened, emboldening, emboldens. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Embolden" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Embledown, emboldern, enbolden. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "embolden" (pronounced embō"ldun)
5	-ō" l d u n	beholden, golden, Holden, olden, Soldan.
3	-d u n	abandon, bedridden, broaden, burden, cordon, deaden, downtrodden, forbidden, garden, gladden, harden, hidden, Jordan, laden, leaden, Linden, Loden, Louden, madden, maiden, menhaden, Myrmidon, overburden, overridden, pardon, prekindergarten, prostaglandin, redden, ridden, sadden, sodden, sudden, tendon, unburden, warden, widen, wooden.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-l-m-n-o"
	-2 letters: blende, blonde, debone, dolmen, mobled, omened.
	-3 letters: bedel, bleed, blend, blond, boned, demob, demon, donee, embed, emend, leben, lemon, leone, lobed, loden, melon, model, monde, noble, olden.
	-4 letters: been, bend, bene, bled, bode, bold, bole, bond, bone, deem, dele, deme, demo, dene, dole, dome, done, ebon, enol, lend, leno, lobe, lode, lone, meed, meld, mend, meno, mode, mold, mole, need, neem, node, noel, nome, omen.
	-5 letters: bed, bee, bel, ben, bod, deb, dee, del, den, doe, dol, dom, don, eel, eld, elm, eme, end, eon, led, lee, lob, med, mel, men, mob, mod, mol, mon, neb, nee, nob, nod, nom, obe, ode, old, ole, one.
	Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-l-m-n-o"
	+1 letter: emboldens.
	+2 letters: emblazoned, emboldened, imboldened.
	+3 letters: commendable, condemnable, demountable, emboldening, molybdenite.
	+4 letters: demonstrable, documentable, imponderable, molybdenites.
	+5 letters: benzimidazole, disemboweling, imponderables, recommendable, unmetabolized.
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