Encourage vs Tolerate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between encourage and tolerate

is that encourage is while tolerate is to allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to exist or occur without interference.

(encourag)

To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.

I encouraged him during his race.

To spur on, strongly recommend.

We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.

To foster, give help or patronage

''The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed

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* discourage

* encouragement * encouraging * encouragingly

(tolerat)

To allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to exist or occur without interference.

I like the way he plays the guitar, but I can't tolerate his voice when he sings.

I can tolerate working on Saturdays, but not on Sundays.

* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . See

* allow, bear, , endure, live with, put up with

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