单词	bucking up
释义	buck up verb bucked up; bucking up; bucks up intransitive verb : to become encouraged : brace up transitive verb 1 : improve, smarten 2 : to raise the morale of Synonyms brighten cheer (up) lighten look up perk (up) See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences buck up, kids, it's not so bad as you're making it out to be a surprise presidential visit to buck up the troops Recent Examples on the Web But the President's attempt to buck up the national psyche and his own political prospects rang rather hollow. Stephen Collinson, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022 So buck up and develop your strategies and techniques to handle such recluse situations with finesse. Womensmedia, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021 Republicans have balked at a provision to buck up IRS tax enforcement in order to help pay for the package, but Senate Democrats are planning to move ahead Wenesday with the first procedural votes on the still-incomplete bill. Joel Mathis, The Week, 20 July 2021 Forward Draymond Green noticed and told him to buck up. New York Times, 4 Nov. 2021 Kristy and Liz buck up and head to the Delaney’s for tea. Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2021 The veteran reporter David Sirota offers a fairly mind-bending essay on the way that public-pension funds are being used to bankroll billionaires—and to buck up the fossil-fuel industry. Bill Mckibben, The New Yorker, 21 July 2021 Southie beaches have seen an influx in recent years of twenty-something techies and financial types who sometimes buck up against the sensibilities of patrons with generational roots in the neighborhood. BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2021 By Tuesday, some governments were already recasting their decisions as a step to buck up confidence in vaccinations — a regrouping, of sorts, of a troubled effort. New York Times, 16 Mar. 2021 See More Word History Etymology buck entry 2 First Known Use 1844, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense bucking up verb present participle of buck up 1 as in looking up to become glad or hopeful buck up, kids, it's not so bad as you're making it out to be Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance looking up brightening perking (up) cheering (up) lightening glowing reviving livening (up) encouraging sparkling rejoicing beaming radiating heartening gladdening Antonyms & Near Antonyms darkening saddening brooding desponding moping despairing fretting See More 2 as in inspiring to fill with courage or strength of purpose a surprise presidential visit to buck up the troops Synonyms & Similar Words inspiring encouraging bearing up buoying (up) chirking (up) cheering (up) heartening stimulating emboldening inspiriting reinforcing steeling animating enforcing provoking invigorating reassuring enlivening strengthening exciting assuring energizing reenforcing stirring fortifying rallying galvanizing quickening boosting Antonyms & Near Antonyms discouraging daunting disheartening undermining depressing weakening debilitating demoralizing dispiriting intimidating saddening psyching (out) hamstringing enfeebling See More
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