inspired
/ɪnˈspaɪɹd/ adjective B2- Having excellence through inspiration. · The actor's inspired performance of Hamlet's soliloquy left the audience dumbfounded.
- Filled with inspiration or motivated. · The artist was inspired to paint a true masterpiece.· He was inspired to learn to fly.
- Infused with power or knowledge granted from a supernatural entity; possessing inspiration from the divine.
- Drawn into the lungs; inhaled.
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“What do you mean, sir?” asked Villefort, trembling at the new idea inspired by the delirium of Morrel.
The dim light, the profound silence, and the gloomy thoughts inspired by the hour, and still more by her own conscience, all combined to produce a sensation of fear; the poisoner was terrified at the contemplation of her own work.
For a long time the Farmer, brandishing an empty sling, chased them away by the terror he inspired; but when the birds found that the sling was only swung in the air, they ceased to take any notice of it and would not move.
“Continue to seek for this man, sir,” said the king to the minister of police; “for if, as I am all but convinced, General Quesnel, who would have been so useful to us at this moment, has been murdered, his assassins, Bonapartists or not, shall be cruelly punished.” It required all Villefort’s coolness not to betray the terror with which this declaration of the king inspired him.
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