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Applaud

[uh-plawd]

verb (used without object)

to clap the hands as an expression of approval, appreciation, acclamation, etc.: They applauded wildly at the end of the opera.

to express approval; give praise; acclaim.

verb (used with object)

to clap the hands so as to show approval, appreciation, etc., of: to applaud an actor; to applaud a speech.

to praise or express approval of: to applaud a person's ambition.

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Origin:
1530–40; < Latin applaudere, equivalent to ap- ap-¹ + plaudere to clap the hands

Related forms

ap·plaud·er, noun

ap·plaud·ing·ly, adverb

o·ver·ap·plaud, verb

re·ap·plaud, verb

self-ap·plaud·ing, adjective

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un·ap·plaud·ed, adjective

un·ap·plaud·ing, adjective

well-ap·plaud·ed, adjective

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Example Sentences

Tayman's noble account makes you want to stand and applaud.

Fraternities and sororities would orchestrate loud cheering sections to applaud each of their members as they crossed the stage.

Parents around the country will surely applaud this effort.

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Tayman's noble account makes you want to stand and applaud.

Fraternities and sororities would orchestrate loud cheering sections to applaud each of their members as they crossed the stage.

Parents around the country will surely applaud this effort.

One has to applaud the genius of a city that provides not only a complication but its resolution.

I'd applaud until my hands fell off the decision to abolish the death penalty.

The people in the audience are actors and entertainers also, but they are looking at him with pride as they applaud.

We applaud his ambition, but there are two obvious problems.

We applaud this critical distinction between consumption and investment.

At the end, his audience rose to applaud as for a piano virtuoso.

Part of me wants to applaud these pleas for science's deceleration.

The question remains whether this development is something to applaud or to fear.

We applaud his efforts to give current candidates a better experience than he had at the disastrous interview he described.

One should applaud the new-found caution of the corporate sector.

The bullies orchestrating a witch hunt might applaud this fetid slop, but no one else.

Both sides will applaud the expansion of reprogrammed cell research, then regroup on their side of the debate.

When he fans the cards out, demonstrating that after eight shuffles they return to their original order, his colleagues applaud.

The public may applaud all the louder for a winner who has conquered the peaks and time-trials under his own steam.

D and applaud researchers who give us clear information.

We applaud the release, even though the formats in which the data was provided don't encourage reuse.

Environmentalists would no doubt applaud that result.

Make sure the results can be duplicated by atleast two independent labs before you applaud it.

Even taxpayers' rights groups, which generally applaud the return of government revenues to the private sector, are up in arms.

Let us applaud and congratulate them on their innovation and their success.

In their haste to applaud or lament this tale, both sides of the debate tend to overlook some nuances.

He is a moderate in a country where the loudest voices applaud immoderation.

Anyway, they end up getting married while the other islanders applaud.

Despite benefiting from high oil prices in the first quarter, oil executives may not applaud further increases.

The history and meaning of stolen bows, conductor kisses, intermission poker games and players who applaud with their feet.

The audience in blue uniforms rose again to applaud and cheer when the author introduced the movie based on his book.

McAdams came down clearly on the side of those inclined to applaud.

In both cases, many applaud the dissention because they view a noble adherence to.

Instead, they applaud the news that the renegade teacher who revealed the secret has been expunged from the.

Only a crazy person would stand up to applaud when the same actors take their bows seconds later.

The more entangled their financial disaster, the more energetically the audience would applaud.

We applaud these young women for their courage, insight and social responsibility.

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World English Dictionary

applaud (əˈplɔːd)

—vb
1.	to indicate approval of (a person, performance, etc) by clapping the hands
2.	(usually tr) to offer or express approval or praise of (an action, person, or thing): I applaud your decision

[C15: from Latin applaudere to clap, from plaudere to beat, applaud]

ap'plauder

—n

ap'plauding

—*adj*

ap'plaudingly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

applaud

1530s, "to express agreement with," from L. applaudere "to clap the hands in approbation, to approve by clapping hands," from ad "to" + plaudere "to clap" (see plaudit). Sense of "express approval of" is from 1590s; that of "to clap the hands" is from 1590s. Figurative sense

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arrived in English before literal.

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