Inspire [in-spahyuhr] in-spired, in-spir-ing 1. To fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence 2. To produce or arouse (a feeling, thought, etc.) 3. To affect, elicit, guide, or arouse by divine influence 4. To fill with enlivening or exalting emotion 5. To breathe on, breathe in and breathe life into The profundity of breathing in, of having life breathed into us, is literally, metaphorically and energetically an act of inspiration. In fact, to be inspired