happy
/ˈhæpi/ verb C2- Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
- Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.
He/she/it happies · Past happied · Past participle happied · -ing form happying
Verb forms
- Base form
- happy
- He/she/it
- happies
- Past
- happied
- Past participle
- happied
- -ing form
- happying
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Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make _their_ eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.
The happy children ankle-deep
But I can be happy and building at home.
To keep me happy all the day.
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