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• v  spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
• v  force or impel in an indicated direction

• During the half time the coach exhorted the players to shed their defensive mindset and go all out for the offensive.
• He would do the same thing exhort them to take greater risks 10 years later and then persuade them to reverse course after December 2006.
• He dared to exhort nonviolence in a time when the violence of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had exploded on us; he exhorted morality when science, technology and the capitalist order had .

• cheer
• root on
• inspire
• urge
• barrack
• urge on
• pep up
• press

News & Articles

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• Butch Jones says new receivers have 'improved team' from spring
  Tennessee coach Butch Jones was critical of the Vols’ intensity in Friday’s opening practice of training camp, and he depleted his vocal chords trying to exhort his team.
  Aug. 4, 2013 - Knoxville News Sentinel

Quotes

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• the Apostle Paul in Florida Baptist Witness
  In 1 Timothy 2:1-4, the Apostle Paul writes: "I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, [and] giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and [for] all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and...
• Joe Maddon in Tampabay.com
  I'm seeing the confidence come back up in the moment,he said. "You can sit in the dugout when it's not happening and as much as you want to exhort and 'Let's go' and 'Atta boy' and 'C'mon,' you just know it's not going to work because...
• Jacques Chirac in Bloomberg
  I exhort one more time Tehran to make the necessary gestures to create conditions of trust,French President Jacques Chirac told an annual meeting of French ambassadors in Paris today. "There is still time for dialogue."