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applaud English

Meaning applaud meaning

What does applaud mean?
Definitions in simple English

applaud Verb

— If you applaud something, you show you like it by hitting your hands together many times, making sounds. (clap) Especially if it is music or a play. I applaud your wonderful performance.

applaud

— verb (= clap) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval — verb express approval of I applaud your efforts

Synonyms applaud synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as applaud?

applaud English » English

clap praise acclaim extol cheer commend admire laud hail eulogize congratulate clap hands compliment approve appreciate eulogise clap one’s hands celebrate worship spat root honor cherish acknowledge whip wallop undertake troll tout throb thresh thrash thank take up take sustain support strike slam signalize scuffle scramble scour sanction rule in rise rhapsodize rhapsodise retreat remember

Topics applaud topics

What do people use applaud to talk about?
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Like, love

Happy for
Language and thought Communication Sign, symbol

Laugh

Conjugation applaud conjugation

How do you conjugate applaud?

applaud · verb

Examples applaud examples

How do I use applaud in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I applaud your decision to study medicine.
I applaud your decision to quit smoking.
The whole audience got up and started to applaud.
People applaud a singer because he sang well, or maybe because he finally stopped.
All the students applaud.
As soon as the new teacher entered the classroom, the students began to applaud.
The crowd began to applaud.

Movie subtitles

Applaud.
Do not forget them and applaud the lies of fanatical intolerance.
A performance that his party no doubt will applaud.
Applaud, you stewbum!
Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, till thou applaud the deed.
If thou couldst, doctor, cast the water of my land, find her disease, and purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo that should applaud again.
But I tell you, they won't wait till the end, they'll applaud in the middle!
I've listened backstage to people applaud.
See them applaud?
All applaud.
Before you dance. I'd like to salute and applaud an illustrious guest who is. honoring us with his presence.
Must I applaud too, Alberto?
If I had my hands free I would applaud you.
And the future of our families, the young men who one day want to be called the pride of England, it's not that they would hiss and boo that harlot, no, they applaud her!
History will applaud your courage, sir.
Minor awards are for such as the writer and director, since they merely construct a tower so that the world can applaud a light which flashes on top of it.
See them applaud? - Bert, I was so nervous.
It's just that it's not considered elegant to applaud too loudly at court.
I can't even applaud you properly.
They only pretend to applaud my song.
What do you want me to do, applaud?
And I would applaud it, for you, as the chairing minister, shouldn't have let things go so far.
Applaud!
I applaud your discretion.
Why, if there's nothing else, there's applause. I've listened backstage to people applaud.
Your Grace shall be the first to applaud, I'm sure.
There was one piece I had, they used to applaud like anything when I finished.
I noticed the characters who did applaud for you.
Laugh it up, applaud, something.

News and current affairs

Arabs seem increasingly willing to accept - and even applaud - the Obama administration's policy toward the region.
Neither the Israeli government nor its intimate ally in the White House can be expected to applaud the Iraq Study Group's call for a repetition of that logic, for it contradicts everything the Bush administration has championed.
Some advocates of a closer Visegrad cooperation criticize Poland's emerging strategy, while euroskeptics in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia applaud the Poles.
So, naturally, they applaud the Israeli government for using harsh measures to keep the Arabs down.
Presumably, Lin will soon be earning much more, and fans will applaud.
All three factions applaud the downfalls of media oligarchs Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinsky, but for different reasons.
We should applaud China, India, the United States, and the European Union for their pre-Paris pledges on climate action.
At the moment, people applaud sustainable growth, but they don't vote for what it means in practice.
All the same, I applaud Sonia Gandhi for her commitment to appointing a woman to this important position.
Opposition groups here applaud President Vincente Fox's recent anti-American stance in the UN Security Council, while Mexican businessmen oppose it.
It was a fine speech, and Europeans will duly applaud it; but listen for the growing undertone of anxiety that this bold young US president has just helped himself to some more of Europe's clothes.

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