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What is the verb for cheerful?

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cheer
  1. (transitive) To gladden; to make cheerful; often with up.
  2. (transitive) To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort.
  3. (transitive) To applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Derby had tried to cheer her with a few stories about his early days, thinking that a case of homesickness was easy to cure.”
      “As the Dolphin fans realized that the momentum was actually changing, they began to wildly cheer their team on.”
cheerlead
  1. (intransitive) To participate in cheerleading.
  2. (transitive) To support someone enthusiastically.
  3. Examples:
    1. “At the top of the list are usually the athletic individuals, those that play football or cheerlead and the like.”
      “He put the team ahead of personal goals and ambitions, taking upon himself to mentor and cheerlead for his understudy-turned-starter.”
      “We hurried back to our bathroom to change into our outfits to cheerlead and dance at the game.”
cheers
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cheer
  2. Synonyms:
cheerleading
  1. present participle of cheerlead
cheering
cheere
  1. Obsolete spelling of cheer
cheerleads
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cheerlead
cheeres
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cheere
cheereth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of cheer
cheerled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of cheerlead
cheerleaded
  1. simple past tense and past participle of cheerlead
cheerest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of cheer
cheered
  1. simple past tense and past participle of cheer
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “What cheered me up further was the readiness of the coach drivers to jape and joke about with people who didn't understand English.”
      “Whilst the jet set bit of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle can be fun, coming home to a pile of junk mail and red bills never cheered anyone up.”
      “He was cheered to the echo and, a trifle remarkably, joyously, and continually, waved to the thousands who were acclaiming him.”
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