Encourage vs Endorses - What's the difference?
encourage | endorses |
To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
To spur on, strongly recommend.
To foster, give help or patronage
(endorse)
To support, to back, to give one's approval to, especially officially or by signature.
To write one's signature on the back of a cheque, or other negotiable instrument, when transferring it to a third party, or cashing it.
To give an endorsement.
(heraldiccharge) A diminutive of the pale, usually appearing in pairs on either side of a pale.
English words prefixed with en-
As verbs the difference between encourage and endorses
is that encourage is to mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit while endorses is third-person singular of endorse.As a noun endorses is
plural of lang=en.encourage
English
Verb
(encourag)- I encouraged him during his race.
- We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.
- ''The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed