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Cheer

verb

(past & past part. cheered; pres. part. cheering)

1.

Give encouragement to. Synonyms: embolden, hearten, recreate. Antonym: dishearten.

2.

Show approval or good wishes by shouting.

3.

Cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful. Synonyms: cheer up, jolly along, jolly up.

4.

Become cheerful. Synonyms: cheer up, chirk up. Antonym: complain.

5.

Spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts. Synonyms: barrack, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on.

noun

1.

A cry or shout of approval.

2.

The quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom. Synonyms: cheerfulness, sunniness, sunshine. Antonym: uncheerfulness.

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... an easy-chair as soon as the little party entered Crawshay's sitting room. There was a gloomy frown upon his forehead, but the sight of a whisky decanter and a soda-water syphon upon the sideboard, appeared to cheer him up. ...

— The Box with Broken Seals • E. Phillips Oppenheim

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... thronging most thickly upon us, I have never felt the want of anything to lean against; but I own I did feel like shaking hands with a few hundred people when I heard of our Fourth of July, 1863, work, and should like to have heard and joined in an American cheer ...

— Memoir of John Lothrop Motley, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... sleighing was good, and all the world was out trying their horses on Main street—the racecourse of the world. Day after day passed, and the thermometer sank to a lower point, and the winds rose to a higher, and sleighing became uncomfortable; and even the dullest man longs for the cheer of a newspaper. The 'Nantucket Inquirer' came out for awhile, but at length it had nothing to tell and nothing to inquire about, and ...

— Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals • Maria Mitchell

... the Atlantic Ocean, to find a humble admirer in the wilds of Canada, and tell how he looked among the flies. 'Why should a tear be in an old man's eye?' O, holy Moses, that's the finest line I've sighted in a dog's age. Cheer up, old man, and wipe that tear away, for I see the ...

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