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Another word for buoy

Verb

  1. To keep from yielding or failing during stress or difficulty.

    2. See also:

    help

  2. To raise the spirits of.

    3. See also:

    happy

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Another word for buoy

Noun
    2. See also:

    float

© 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

  • She was worried and tired already, and his latest jab didn't buoy her spirits at all.

  • Click on the buoy icon that reads, "Get on Board."

  • She swims out to the buoy, and while he is asleep on the beach, she fights a losing battle against an unseen predator.

  • The yellow buoy can be seen in the center of the picture.

  • buoy that helped us to find the wreck.

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