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Antonyms for perk up

Grammar : Verb
Spell : purk
Phonetic Transcription : pÉœrk

Definition of perk up

Origin :
  • late 14c., "to make oneself trim or smart," perhaps from Old North French perquer "to perch" (Modern French percher; see perch (n.1)), on notion of a bird preening its plumage. Sense of "raise oneself briskly" is first attested 1520s; perk up "recover liveliness" is from 1650s. Related: Perked; perking.
  • verb cheer
Example sentences :
  • The good custom was established and Meg began to perk up again.
  • Extract from : « Jan and Her Job » by L. Allen Harker
  • You get int' your best clothes and perk up a bit; you can boss it over Janet.
  • Extract from : « Janet of the Dunes » by Harriet T. Comstock
  • Aunty Rose declared that Carolyn May began at once to perk up.
  • Extract from : « Carolyn of the Corners » by Ruth Belmore Endicott
  • Andy forgot his personal embarrassment and began to perk up his ears.
  • Extract from : « The Happy Family » by Bertha Muzzy Bower
  • Bless my soul, if Lucia did not perk up the second the forelady left, edge over, and direct a volume of Italian at me.
  • Extract from : « Working With the Working Woman » by Cornelia Stratton Parker
  • They perk up wonderfully as the barometer falls and the damp makes itself felt in their warm cases of glass.
  • Extract from : « Motor Matt's Peril, or, Cast Away in the Bahamas » by Stanley R. Matthews
  • Anyhow, your comin' hez been a good thing fur Nancy, an' I reckons she'll begin to perk up from now on.
  • Extract from : « Darry the Life Saver » by Frank V. Webster
  • In lifting her arms to perk up the bow at her throat she knocked a hat off the bracket.
  • Extract from : « An Old-fashioned Girl » by Louisa May Alcott
  • But, in this other lot, the shoots are commencin' to perk up, an' insec's have stirred the mold.
  • Extract from : « The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley » by Louis Tracy
  • What is done to Lordsburg we can stand, but a blow at our own warbags, even in antic'pation, is calc'lated to cause us to perk up.
  • Extract from : « Faro Nell and Her Friends » by Alfred Henry Lewis

Synonyms for perk up

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