Crossword clues for cheered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cheer \Cheer\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cheered (ch[=e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. cheering.]
To cause to rejoice; to gladden; to make cheerful; -- often with up.
--Cowpe.-
To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort.
The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered.
--Dryden. -
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.
Syn: To gladden; encourage; inspirit; comfort; console; enliven; refresh; exhilarate; animate; applaud.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: cheer)
Usage examples of "cheered".
The Rralandoonans in the crowd cheered but not all the visitors looked pleased by the outcome.
He was much cheered to realize that something could be rescued to pay for lost time.
Folks cheered the black horses as if they, in themselves, were the omen of victory over the Saxon hordes.
He would be even more cheered when he learned that Raul had a Singularity Drive ship.
Just when I've got her cheered up and back to something near her normal—for her—frame of mind.
Keff cheered as Brannel held up the packet and waved him onto the chair's end.
Others cheered and cried out Standard phrases they had learned from Keff's media interviews.
Killashandra had no wish to resist the enticements so lavishly available and she cheered as hard as the rest of the inhabitants of Angel Island as sailors on the yard arms reefed the sails while the schooner glided toward the pier, and the shoremen waited to secure the lines tossed to them.
She cheered when she caught them in her skirt, closing the makeshift net and running awkwardly through the wavelets to the shore before any of the squirming fish could escape.
They cheered the arrival of the Pearl, some wading out to float the water-tight supplies in to shore.
The speck disappeared, and most cheered and clapped at this verification of the tacit Farmer permission.
We all” — her delicate hand made a graceful sweeping gesture that included all the technicians working in the huge laboratory block — “are immensely cheered by such a high rate of success.
The technicians who had made it possible cheered, and clapped one another on the back.
With a final grateful farewell wave to Mallum, she picked up her heels as Mallum cheered her on with the traditional runner's 'yo-ho'.
As always, the sleepy response of her queen cheered her of Nesso's petulance.