"buoy up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-buoy up.ogg Forms: buoys up [present, singular, third-person], buoying up [participle, present], buoyed up [participle, past], buoyed up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} buoy up (third-person singular simple present buoys up, present participle buoying up, simple past and past participle buoyed up)
  1. (idiomatic, transitive, figurative) To uplift, hearten, inspire, or raise the spirits of. Tags: figuratively, idiomatic, transitive Translations (uplift): ободрявам (obodrjavam) (Bulgarian), обнадеждавам (obnadeždavam) (Bulgarian), encourager (French), flott halten (German), Auftrieb geben (German), aufrechterhalten (German), beleben (German)
    Sense id: en-buoy_up-en-verb--1qjH5zE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "up", Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Maori translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 86 14 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "up": 83 17 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 88 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 88 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 91 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 84 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 79 21 Disambiguation of 'uplift': 89 11
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To keep afloat; to provide with buoyancy. Tags: idiomatic, transitive Translations (keep afloat): whakatere (Maori)
    Sense id: en-buoy_up-en-verb--m~5zXgJ Disambiguation of 'keep afloat': 6 94

Inflected forms

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