Difference between Encourage and Stimulate

ENCOURAGE vs STIMULATE: VERB

To inspire with hope, courage, or confidence.
To give support to; foster.
To stimulate; spur.
To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward; -- the opposite of discourage.

To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion.
To excite; to irritate; especially, to excite the activity of (a nerve or an irritable muscle), as by electricity.

Inspire with confidence
Give hope or courage to
To make stronger.
To help forward; promote; give support to: as, to encourage manufactures.
To give courage to; inspire with courage, spirit, or firmness of mind; incite to action or perseverance.

Cause to act in a specified manner
Cause to do
To act as a stimulus.
Synonyms To encourage, impel, urge, instigate, provoke, whet, foment, kindle, stir up.
Specifically, to affect by the use of intoxicating drinks.
In physiology, to quicken temporarily some functional or trophic process in.
To prick; goad; excite, rouse, or animate to action or more vigorous exertion by some effective motive or by persuasion; spur on; incite.

Invite, Allow, Facilitate, Stimulate, Urge, Inspire, Spur, Entice, Motivate, Discourage, Incentivize, Advance, Further, Boost, Promote

Shake up, Rush, Brace, Energise, Shake, Cause, Get, Make, Stir, Hasten, Arouse, Provoke, Excite, Induce, Energize

Invite, Allow, Facilitate, Stimulate, Urge, Inspire, Spur, Entice, Motivate, Discourage, Incentivize, Advance, Further, Boost, Promote

Have, Rush, Brace, Energise, Shake, Cause, Get, Make, Stir, Hasten, Arouse, Provoke, Excite, Induce, Energize

Suggestions from the followers are encourage and rewarded.
We invite and encourage everyone to visit us!
Templates may also encourage cloned or copied documentation.
Narrow roads help to encourage low travel speeds.
Honor societies recognize and encourage high academic scholarship.
Recreational activities encourage social awareness and communication skills.
At Kent we recognise, encourage and reward excellence.
Encourage employees to share their thoughts and suggestions.
Encourage them to write down questions they have.
Just as we need to encourage women to lean in to their careers, we need to encourage men to lean in to their families.

Enables user to find and stimulate acupuncture points.
Did New Deal Grant Programs Stimulate Local Economies?
We need more to stimulate jobs and stuff.
EDA issues construction grants to stimulate economic development.
Stimulate MMC with a prokinetic and physical activity.
It will also stimulate greater accountability and transparency.
Patient requires drug therapy to stimulate gastrointestinal motility.
They are called stimulants because they stimulate nerve cells to produce more of the deficient neurotransmitter not because they stimulate or arouse the individual.
Methylxanthines stimulate the CNS, act on the kidney to stimulate diuresis, and increase the contractility of cardiac and skeletal muscle.
Whereas eccentric exercises stimulate size, concentric exercises stimulate strength.