cheer **
root on
inspire ***
urge ***
barrack
urge on
exhort
pep up

He could only hope that the weird growth would not root on their skins.

Also, Flatsy's hair is not rooted in the back of head, only on the top.

He rooted about on the grass, sighed, and lay still.

I have to believe Sonya's rooting for us on some level.

There was a woman on 72d Street, for example, who stood rooted on the platform's edge perhaps 30 feet away.

There were dry thistles in the window spaces, and young trees rooted on the walls.

Chickens rooted along the fragments of marble on the narrow walks.

The sons and daughters of Cabot are rooted on farms here.

Everything was as quiet and steady as if rooted on the surface of a planet.

The film is also rooted on the tradition of the horror film genre.