cheer

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I had to cheer a bit when I saw Kerr was going to be helping him.

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Quick take

a cry or shout of approval

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noun

a cry or shout of approval

noun

the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom; "flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room"

verb

give encouragement to

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cheer.

noun

a cry or shout of approval

noun

the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom; "flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room"

See also: cheerfulness, sunniness, sunshine

verb

give encouragement to

verb

show approval or good wishes by shouting; "everybody cheered the birthday boy"

verb

cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful; "She tried to cheer up the disappointed child when he failed to win the spelling bee"

verb

become cheerful

verb

spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts; "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers"

See also: inspire, urge, barrack, exhort

Example sentences

I had to cheer a bit when I saw Kerr was going to be helping him.

It is in my interest to cheer on Apple's every move.

And all the time, we had a "hey, let's grab a beer and cheer you up"-kind of relationship that I thought was pretty good.

OK...I cheer to so many things Apple does regarding operations.

On that note, though today isn't the best day for me to cheer up others, I'm available to chat for any founder going through dark days.

People have to stop thinking about which side is more fun to "cheer" to and start thinking about what's in your best interest as a consumer.

I'll cheer for anything that raises awareness and reduces apathy among my generation and yours.

There's an overwhelming bias on HN in favor of "rules that impede startups are there to be broken", and, of course, 3/4 of the site is going to cheer you on.

I could have been smart enough or empathetic enough to realize this stranger had a bad day, and say something nice to him to cheer him up. I could have been smart enough to get a better security system for my house.

"Besides that, it's simply not like me to cheer for anyone's death, in principle, especially a figure the TV adamantly asserts we're supposed to hate.

We cheer entrepreneurs on, until they see a massive success, at which point we feel compelled to point out that their achievement is meaningless and we knew it all along.

Not even a whimper of cheer for Osama's death from me, given the abysmal foreign policy and national security state failure of the last decade.

And once the world moves against you, those that you so aggressively bullied will cheer your demise: you will never recover until you accept that you have failed your customers and violated their trust.

It's why communities rally around protesting against sex offender treatment centres or cheer about prison rape like more sexual abuse somehow won't make offenders more deviant.