to encourage an activity or development or make it happen faster: Rising consumer sales have the effect of spurring the economy to faster growth. Spurred (on) by her early success, she went on to write four more novels in rapid succession. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Encouraging and urging on. abet. barrack for someone phrasal verb More @Wikipedia
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