Spanish word
alentar
/alenˈtaɾ/
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- Part of speech
- verb
- Level
- B2
- Taught in
- Latin America, Spain
Meanings
- to encourage
- to encourage, animatetransitive
- to gather up one's couragereflexive
- to recuperate; to recover from an illness.Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican-Republic, El-Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto-Rico, Venezuela, colloquial, intransitive, pronominal
- to slow down, become slowLatin-America
- to become or behave as a shy, shameful or fearful personMexico, reflexive
- encourage(mentally support or motivate)
- foster(to cultivate and grow something)
- hearten(to give heart to, to encourage)
- inhale(to draw air into the lungs)
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