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Definition: Buoy Up |
Buoy UpVerb1. Make more cheerful. 2. Keep afloat: "The life vest buoyed him up". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Buoy UpSynonyms: buoy (v), lighten (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: weigh down (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Hope | Give hope, inspire hope, raise hope, hold out hope; Noun: promise, bid fair, augur well, be in a fair way, look up, flatter, tell a flattering tale; raise expectations; encourage, cheer, assure, reassure, buoy up, embolden. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Buoy Up |
| English words defined with "buoy up": Cable buoy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "buoy up": recovery package. (references) |
Expression using "buoy up": buoy up with hope. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "buoy up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mbaj mbi ujë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | udržovat nad vodou. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | soutenir (buttress), faire flotter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | beleben (animate, brighten, brighten up, bring to life, enliven, exhilarate, inspirit, invigorate, liven, liven up, revive, stimulate, to animate, to enliven, to freshen, to inspirit, to revive, to staminate, variegate, vitalize, vivify), auftrieb geben (give a lift), über wasser halten. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gyámolít (prop, to buoy up, to prop, to support), bátorít (encourage, to buoy up, to encourage, to hearten, to incite, to nerve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uoybay upay esperanzar (buoy up with hope, give hope to). (various references) ช่วยให้ลอยขึ้น, สนับสนุน (back, behind, bolster, favor, favour, for, further, lend to, second, side, sustain). (various references) yüksek tutmak, desteklik etmek (buttress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-o-p-u-u-y" | |
-2 letters: buoy, upby. | |
-3 letters: bop, boy, buy, pub, upo, yob, you, yup. | |
-4 letters: bo, by, op, oy, up, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-o-p-u-u-y" | |
+5 letters: bumptiously. | |
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