applaud
/əˈplɔd/ verb B1- To express approval (of something) by clapping the hands. · After the performance, the audience applauded for five minutes.
- To praise, or express approval for something or someone. · Although we don't like your methods, we applaud your motives.
He/she/it applauds · Past applauded · Past participle applauded · -ing form applauding
Verb forms
- Base form
- applaud
- He/she/it
- applauds
- Past
- applauded
- Past participle
- applauded
- -ing form
- applauding
From the library
His eyes fairly glittered as he spoke, and he put his hand over his heart and bowed as if to some applauding crowd conjured up by his imagination.
The answer was a perfectly indescribable hiss, and Mowgli kicked up his feet behind, clapped his hands together to applaud himself, and jumped on to Bagheera’s back, where he sat sideways, drumming with his heels on the glossy skin and making the worst faces he could think of at Baloo.
“It was a sublime and charitable thought,” said Monte Cristo, “and the whole world should applaud it.
“I was the first to discover Duprez at Naples, and the first to applaud him.
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