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View definitions for cheer up

cheer up

verb as in make cheerful

verb as in become cheerful

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Example Sentences

The defendant, who told police "cheer up, at least you've caught the bad guy", will have to serve a minimum term of 36 years before being considered for release.

From BBC

I was at Union Station when I encountered an elderly woman who looked a little bereft and in need of cheering up.

About midway through “The Sixth Sense,” Bruce Willis’ Malcolm, a compassionate child psychologist, attempts to cheer up Haley Joel Osment’s Cole, a disturbed boy struggling with secrets he’s too scared to reveal.

Donald Trump needs cheering up and nothing makes him happier than lackeys begging for his favor.

From Salon

Park, who retired in 2012, remains one of the most popular sports personalities in South Korea, where many people remember how his heroics cheered up a nation weathering a crippling financial crisis in the late-1990s.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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