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Cheering   /tʃˈɪrɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Cheer  v. t.  (past & past part. cheered; pres. part. cheering)  
1.
To cause to rejoice; to gladden; to make cheerful; often with up.
2.
To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort. "The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered."
3.
To salute or applaud with cheers; to urge on by cheers; as, to cheer hounds in a chase.
To cheer ship, to salute a passing ship by cheers of sailors stationed in the rigging.
Synonyms: To gladden; encourage; inspirit; comfort; console; enliven; refresh; exhilarate; animate; applaud.


Cheer  v. i.  
1.
To grow cheerful; to become gladsome or joyous; usually with up. "At sight of thee my gloomy soul cheers up."
2.
To be in any state or temper of mind. (Obs.) "How cheer'st thou, Jessica?"
3.
To utter a shout or shouts of applause, triumph, etc. "And even the ranks of Tusculum Could scare forbear to cheer."





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"Cheering" Quotes from Famous Books



... many are the hearts that beat for constitutional liberty, and with high resolve to respect every clause and guaranty which the Constitution contains, are pledged to faithfully uphold the rights of any and every portion of the States, and of the people. [Tremendous cheering.] ...
— Speeches of the Honorable Jefferson Davis 1858 • Hon. Jefferson Davis
... hath he there beene seene, With teares augmenting the fresh mornings deaw, Adding to cloudes, more cloudes with his deepe sighes, But all so soone as the all-cheering Sunne, Should in the farthest East begin to draw The shadie Curtaines from Auroras bed, Away from light steales home my heauy Sonne, And priuate in his Chamber pennes himselfe, Shuts vp his windowes, lockes faire day-light out, And makes himselfe an artificiall night: Blacke and portendous ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... afternoons in the garret the horn at last made a sound. But it was not a cheering noise; it reminded me forcibly of the groans uttered by Butterwick's horse when it was dying last November. The harder I blew, the more mournful became the noise, and that was the only note I could get. When I went down to supper, Mrs. A. asked me if I heard that awful groaning. She ...
— Elbow-Room - A Novel Without a Plot • Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)
... was certainly advantageous to America, inasmuch as it caused the present beautiful capitol to be built in the place of the one we burnt, was, nevertheless, considered as a national calamity at the time. In a volume of miscellaneous poems I met with one, written with the patriotic purpose of cheering the country under it; one triplet struck me as rather alarming for us, however ...
— Domestic Manners of the Americans • Fanny Trollope
... troubled with any shells. Second-Lieut. Edmunds who had been on leave since we left Miraumont came back to assist me, for about another month. Great droves of German prisoners now began to pass us several times a day, a cheering sight in one way, but not a pleasant one in another. They were truly a desperate-looking collection of men, mostly of a very ...
— Q.6.a and Other places - Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918 • Francis Buckley


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