exhort to do

exhort someone to do something

to urge or pressure someone to do something. She exhorted us to do better, but we only did worse. The boss exhorted the workers to increase productivity.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Seija	SAY-yah	Finnish
MarlÈNe	-	French
Volker	FAWL-ker	German
Altan	-	Turkish
Ivan	['aivən]
Madeleine	ma-də-LEN (French), mad-LEN (French), MAD-ə-lin (English), MAD-ə-lien (English)	French, English, Swedish