Verb: exhort ig'zort
- Spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
"The crowd exhorted the demonstrating strikers";
- cheer, root on [N. Amer, informal], inspire, urge, barrack [Austral, NZ], urge on, pep
- Force or impel in an indicated direction
"I exhorted him to finish his studies";
- urge, urge on, press
Derived forms: exhorts, exhorting, exhorted