buoy-up

Verbs

  • (v) become more cheerful
    • after a glass of wine, he lightened up a bit
    lighten up, lighten,
  • (v) make more cheerful
    • the conversation lightened me up a bit
    lighten, lighten up,
  • (v) keep afloat
    • The life vest buoyed him up
    buoy,

Synonyms

lighten up lighten buoy

Antonyms

weigh down weigh on

Words of close approximity