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INSPIRED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods
Example:
an inspired performance
Synonyms:
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Similar:
glorious (having or deserving or conferring glory)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb inspire
Context examples:
Status of decreased oxygen in inspired gases, arterial blood, or tissues. — 2003
(Hypoxic, NCI Thesaurus)
Jia's team was inspired to dive back into the Galileo data by Melissa McGrath of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.
(Old Data Reveal New Evidence of Europa Plumes, NASA)
The team has developed a robust bio-inspired, liquid, sludge-, and bacteria-repellent coating that can essentially make a toilet self-cleaning.
(Materials scientists invent new coating for self-cleaning, water-efficient toilets, Wikinews)
His poems were love poems, inspired by Ruth, but they were never completed.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Researchers developed a liver-inspired 3-D device made of hydrogel and nanoparticles that can remove toxins from blood.
(3-D gel-nanoparticle device detoxifies blood, NIH)
I cannot tell you the loathing and horror with which this insignificant-looking man inspired me.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A measurement of carbon monoxide (CO) transfer from inspired gas to pulmonary capillary blood.
(Carbon Monoxide Diffusing Capability Test, NCI Thesaurus)
A thousand times this occurred, and each time the terror it inspired was as vivid and great as ever.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The shock, however, being less real than the relief, offered it no injury; and she began to talk with easy gaiety of the delightful melancholy which such a grove inspired.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Some good angel inspired me to try gymnastics, and I kept it up till they were glad to sit down and keep still.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
