perk up
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perk up
verb perks up · perking up · perked up
- To become more upright His ears perked up when he heard there would be ice cream.
- To become more lively or enthusiastic. In hopes the coming Scenes your Mirth will raise To you, the Iust pretenders to the Bays; The Poet humbly thus a Reverence pays And you, the Contraries, that hate the Pains Of Labour’d Sense, or of Improving Brains: That feel the Lashes in a well-writ Play, He bids perk up and smile, the Satyr sleep
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To cause to be more upright, straighten up.
For five minutes Pollyanna worked swiftly, deftly, combing a refractory curl into fluffiness, perking up a drooping ruffle at the neck, or shaking a pillow into plumpness so that the head might have a better pose. Meanwhile the sick woman, frowning prodigiously, and openly scoffing at the whole proc
Similar: right, straighten
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to cause to be more lively or enthusiastic.
[…] ’tis better to be lowly born,
And range with humble livers in content,
Than to be perk’d up in a glistering grief,
And wear a golden sorrow.
Similar: elate, hearten, beatify, enrapture, begladden, blissen, bright, cheer, fetch, cheer up, cherish, content
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To exalt oneself, take on a higher status or position.
[…] they should not give heed to Women, that would be perking up in matters of Worshiping God.
Similar: aggrandize, rise
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