See gladden in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sense": "to cause to become more glad",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "обра́довать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "veselítʹ",
"sense": "to cause to become more glad",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "весели́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razveselítʹ",
"sense": "to cause to become more glad",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "развесели́ть"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "prīṇāti",
"sense": "to cause to become more glad",
"word": "प्रीणाति"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to cause to become more glad",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "развесѐлити"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to cause to become more glad",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "razvesèliti"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to cause to become more glad",
"word": "alborozar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to cause to become more glad",
"word": "glädja"
}
],
"word": "gladden"
}
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