Meaning

1 senses
  1. To give heart to; to encourage, urge on, cheer, give confidence to.

    hearten the crowd

    News of the recovery helped to hearten the family.

    ermutigen

    воодушевля́тьvooduševljátʹ, воодушеви́тьvooduševítʹ, вдохновля́тьvdoxnovljátʹ

More definitions
  • give encouragement to

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Her shoulders relaxed at the heartening news.

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  2. Kind words are heartening in tough times.

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  3. Mary was rather heartened by the birth of her nephew.

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  4. You'll see if a good cup of tea and those plum puffs I made today won't hearten you up.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to give heart to, to encourage:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to give heart to, to encourage:

Forms

heartens, heartening, heartened, heartened
Base formhearten · to hearten
3rd person singularheartens
Present participleheartening
Past simpleheartened
Past participleheartened

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhearten
he, she, itheartens

Past simpleLesson

all personsheartened

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave heartened
he, she, ithas heartened

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill hearten

Synonyms

37 synonyms

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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