cheer up
English
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Verb
cheer up (third-person singular simple present cheers up, present participle cheering up, simple past and past participle cheered up)
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To become happier or less downcast.
- I cheered up after seeing the results.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To make someone happier or less downcast.
- The arrival of the unexpected letter cheered him up almost immediately.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:
- Therefore cheere vp your mindes, prepare to fight,
He that can take or ſlaughter Tamburlaine,
Shall rule the Prouince of Albania.
Derived terms
Translations
to become happy
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to make someone happy
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Interjection
- An encouragement to somebody who seems unhappy.
- Cheer up! Things could be worse.
Translations
an encouragement
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