Difference between Encourages and Promote

ENCOURAGES vs PROMOTE: VERB

Change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent
To elevate to the above league.
To encourage, urge or incite
To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
Make publicity for; try to sell (a product)
Be changed for a superior chess or checker piece
Change a pawn for a king by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it the row closest to your opponent
Contribute to the progress or growth of
Give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

To raise to a more important or responsible job or rank.
To advance (a student) to the next higher grade.
To contribute to the progress or growth of; further. : advance.
To urge the adoption of; advocate.
To attempt to sell or popularize by advertising or publicity.
To help establish or organize (a new enterprise), as by securing financial backing.
To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite
To exalt in station, rank, or honor; to elevate; to raise; to prefer; to advance.

Promoted.
In ecclesiastical law, to appeal to an ecclesiastical court, acting therein as informant and receiving compensation or fines exacted from the defendant. Such an informant is called a promoter and the court is said to be promoted.
To contribute to the establishment, growth, enlargement, or improvement of, as of anything valuable, or to the development, increase, or influence of, as of anything evil; forward; advance.
To exalt, or raise to a higher post or position; prefer in rank or honor: as, to promote a captain to a majority.
To inform against.
Synonyms To further, help, encourage, assist.
To give information; be an informer.
Try to sell (a product)
Make publicity for

Exhorts, Enables, Recommends, Motivates, Helps, Inspires, Allows, Fosters, Promotes, Invites, Urges, Advance, Further, Boost, Promote

Facilitate, Stimulate, Enhance, Popularize, Publicize, Kick upstairs, Further, Upgrade, Advance, Raise, Push, Advertize, Boost, Elevate, Encourage

Reinforces, Provides, Urge, Inviting, Enjoins, Tempts, Facilitates, Emphasizes, Enables, Motivates, Helps, Advance, Further, Boost, Promote

Facilitate, Stimulate, Enhance, Popularize, Publicize, Kick upstairs, Further, Upgrade, Advance, Raise, Push, Advertize, Boost, Elevate, Encourage

Eat slowly, chewing food thoroughly to promote digestion.
They have to promote human and civil rights.
Can I promote affiliate links through email campaigns?
Incorporation into daily activities will promote better use.
Rigid bureaucratic structures promote retaliatory behavior among managers.
Develop initiatives to promote interaction among international and domestic students, faculty and staff, and to promote global learning for all students.
Programs designed to promote diversity in generation types may include or promote technologies different from programs designed to achieve environmental goals.
We promote cooperative relationships, facilitate, measure, and report actions and tactics that create reasoned dialogue and public policies to promote the general welfare of.
While most celebs promote health and beauty products, Kelly Ripa is not most people because she decided to promote her love for JIF Hazelnut.
Most promote HERO as part of their efforts to promote energy efficiency or water conservation more broadly.