OVERJOY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to feel extremely joyful or happy

Example:

the economic growth overjoyed the German industry

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "overjoy" is one way to...):

gladden; joy (make glad or happy)

Sentence frames:

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

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