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Inspire a new way to beat her (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

breathe

'inspire' is the definition.
(I know that inspire is a more specific form of the action breathe)

'a new way to beat her' is the wordplay.
'a new way' is an anagram indicator.
'beat'+'her'='beather'
'beather' anagrammed gives 'BREATHE'.

(Other definitions for breathe that I've seen before include "use aqualungs, perhaps" , "wheeze" , "Draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs" , "Tell" , "as wine may be allowed to do" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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