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Another word for applaud

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Verb

  1. To express approval, especially by clapping

    Idioms:
    See also:

    praise

  2. To express warm approval of

    See also:

    praise

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Another word for applaud

Verb
  1. See also:

    praise

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • I applaud your anonymity.

  • I can only applaud this man's ability to deduce.

  • The spectators applaud or hiss according as they make their bow well or ill.

  • Ironically, he seems to applaud their duplicity because it will, his characters believe, be spiritually edifying.

  • Not that everybody doesn't applaud the mother of two for working really hard to get her life and career back on track, but doesn't she ever get out and meet someone new?

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