cheere

Verb

cheer (third-person singular simple present cheers, present participle cheering, simple past and past participle cheered)

1. (transitive) To gladden; to make cheerful; often with up.
   • We were cheered by the offer of a cup of tea.

   Synonyms:

   cheer up, upcheer, beatify, enrapture, begladden, blissen, bright, fetch, cherish, content

2. (transitive) To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort.
   • The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd.1700, [John] Dryden, “The Character of a Good Parson; Imitated from Chaucer, and Inlarg’d”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   comfort, solace, besoothe, console, soothe, animate, arouse, awaken, beghast, leaven

3. (obsolete, transitive) To encourage to do something.
   • Let’s cheere our ſouldiers to incounter him, […]
     And burne him in the fury of that flame,
     That none can quench but blood and Empery.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...

   Synonyms:

   goad, stir up, abet, actuate, goose, fuel, light a fire under, send, sting, bring about

4. (ambitransitive) To applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts.
   • The crowd cheered in support of the athletes.

   Synonyms:

   beclap, cheer on, encheer, hurrah, hurray, huzzah

   Antonyms:

   boo, jeer, gird, jibe, laugh at, scoff, scorn, sneer

5. (figuratively, transitive) To feel or express enthusiasm for (something).
   • The finance sector will cheer this decision.

   Synonyms:

   hail, salute

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