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Make happy

verb

Celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities. Synonyms: jollify, make merry, make whoopie, racket, revel, wassail, whoop it up. "Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!"

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"Make happy" Quotes from Famous Books

... at first sight. That presupposes a volatility of emotion that people of any strength of character arc not likely to indulge in. But—for instance, a man can have a very definite ideal of the kind of woman he would like for a mate, the kind of woman he could be happy with and could make happy. And whenever he finds a woman who corresponds to that ideal he's apt to make a strenuous attempt to get her. That's pretty much how ...

— North of Fifty-Three • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... read countless novels, for her father had been insatiate of them; but she had been so confident of her own charm, and so busily engaged in picturing the manner in which she should discourage or make happy her suitors, that the possibilities of her own active heart-interest had not absorbed much of her thought. The coming of John Dunham into her life had changed all that. In a moment of high and sensitive excitement he had dawned upon her ...

— The Opened Shutters • Clara Louise Burnham

Words linked to "Make happy" : fete, carouse, celebrate, revel, roister, riot