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Definition: Spirit Up |
Spirit UpVerb1. Infuse with spirit; "The company spirited him up". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Spirit UpSynonyms: inspirit (v), spirit (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitation | Stimulate; exsuscitate; inspirit; spirit up, stir up, work up, pique; infuse life into, give new life to; bring new blood, introduce new blood; quicken; sharpen, whet; work upon; (incite); hurry on, give a fillip, put on one's mettle. |
Motive | Stimulate; (excite); spirit up, inspirit; rouse, arouse; animate, incite, foment, provoke, instigate, set on, actuate;act upon, work upon, operate upon; encourage; pat on the back, pat on the shoulder, clap on the back, clap on the shoulder. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "spirit up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Swedish | uppmuntra (countenance, embolden, encourage, exhilarate, exhort, Favor, favour, fillip, foment, hearten, pander, promote, reassure). (various references) | |
Turkish | neşelendirmek (amuse, animate, brace, brace up, brighten, buck up, cheer, cheer up, elate, enliven, exhilarate, hearten, inspirit, light, light up, liven, liven up, quicken, revive, spirit, vivify), cesaretlendirmek (comfort, elevate, encourage, hearten, innervate, set on, spirit, strengthen smb.'s hand), canlandırmak (accelerate, animate, arouse, brace, bring to life, brisk, brisk up, characterize, drum up, enact, enliven, exhilarate, fortify, freshen, furbish up, galvanize, ginger, ginger up, give a fresh impetus to, hearten, impersonate, innervate, inspire, inspirit, interpret, invigorate, jazz, jazz up, jog, key up, liven, liven up, pep up, perform, personalize, personate, personify, play, play the role of, portray, quicken, rake up, rally, recreate, refresh, regenerate, represent, revitalize, revive, revivify, rouse, rouse up, smarten, smarten up, spirit, stimulate, tone up, touch up, uplift, vitalize, vivify, wake, waken). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-p-p-r-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: pipits, purist, spirit, upstir. | |
-3 letters: pipit, puris, sirup, situp, spirt, sprit, spurt, stirp, strip, tipis, trips, turps. | |
-4 letters: iris, pips, pits, pups, puri, purs, puts, rips, rust, ruts, spit, spur, stir, suit, tipi, tips, trip, tuis, tups. | |
-5 letters: its, pip, pis, pit, piu, psi, pup, pur, pus, put, rip, rut, sip, sir, sit, sri. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-p-p-r-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: propitious. | |
+3 letters: perspicuity, precipitous. | |
+4 letters: outstripping, perpetuities, popularities, propitiously, unpropitious. | |
+5 letters: opportunistic, opportunities, perspicuities, precipitously, propinquities, superposition, suppositories. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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