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lifting someone's spirits

lifting someone's spirits is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lift someone's spirits.

Meaning of lift someone's spirits

Verb

lift someone's spirits (third-person singular simple present lifting someone's spirits, present participle lifts someone's spirits, simple past and past participle lifted someone's spirits)

  1. (idiomatic) to cause someone to be cheerful or euphoric.

Questions about lifting someone's spirits

What is lifting someone's spirits the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lifting someone's spirits is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lift someone's spirits.

Words near lifting someone's spirits in the dictionary

  1. lifting oneself up by one's own boot-tags
  2. lifting oneself up by one's own bootstraps
  3. lifting oneself up by one's own waistbands
  4. lifting shop
  5. lifting shops
  6. lifting someone's spirits
  7. lifting span
  8. lifting spans
  9. lifting the bar
  10. lifting the exponent
  11. lifting the lid

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