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CHEER UP

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become cheerful

Synonyms:

cheer; cheer up; chirk up

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "cheer up" is one way to...):

joy; rejoice (feel happiness or joy)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cheer up"):

exuberate; exult; jubilate; rejoice; triumph (to express great joy)

buoy up; lighten; lighten up (become more cheerful)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful

Example:

She tried to cheer up the disappointed child when he failed to win the spelling bee

Synonyms:

cheer; cheer up; jolly along; jolly up

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Cause:

cheer; cheer up; chirk up (become cheerful)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cheer up"):

amuse (make (somebody) laugh)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The good news will cheer up her

Credits

 Context examples: 

But you are a young gentleman, Mr. Copperfull, and my adwice to you is, to cheer up, sir, to keep a good heart, and to know your own walue.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Cheer up, my pritty mawther! said Mr. Peggotty. (But he shook his head aside at us, evidently sensible of the tendency of the late occurrences to recall the memory of the old one.) Doen't be down!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)