cheer
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(verb) show approval or good wishes by shouting; "everybody cheered the birthday boy" |
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Related Words: applaud, buoy up, lighten |
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(verb) urge on or encourage esp. by shouts; "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers" |
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Synonyms: barrack, exhort, inspire, pep up, urge, urge on |
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Related Words: cheerlead, encourage |
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(verb) become cheerful |
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Synonyms: cheer up, chirk up |
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Related Words: buoy up, exult, joy, jubilate, lighten, rejoice, rejoice, triumph |
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Antonyms: complain |
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| 4. |
(verb) make cheerful |
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Synonyms: cheer up, jolly along, jolly up |
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Related Words: amuse |
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(verb) give encouragement to |
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Synonyms: embolden, hearten, recreate |
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Related Words: buck up, encourage, take heart |
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(noun) a cry or shout of approval |
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Related Words: approval, banzai, bravo, commendation, salvo |
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(noun) the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom; "flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room" |
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Synonyms: cheerfulness |
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Related Words: attribute, good humouredness, good naturedness, good-humoredness, good-temperedness |
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