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applaud to the echo en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To give loud and continuous applause.
    • I would applaud thee to the very echo, / That should applaud again. c. 1606, Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 5, scene 3:
    • At first the public applauded her to the echo ; but soon her hearers began to weary of the reiterated extravagances of her style of singing, and the enthusiasm at length died out. 1863, Ellen Creathorne Clayton, Queens of Song: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Celebrated Female Vocalists who Have Appeared on the Lyric Stage, from the Earliest Days of Opera to the Present Time. To which is Added a Chronological List of All the Operas that Have Been Performed in Europe, page 318:
    • After the scene of Hippolyte's declaration, though la Berma well knew the terrible night to which she was returning, her admirers applauded her to the echo and declared her more beautiful than ever. 1922, Marcel Proust, translated by C K Scott-Moncrieff, Remembrance of Things Past, Wordsworth Editions, →ISBN, page 1245:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
applauded to the echo Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
applauded to the echo Tense=Past lexicographic
applauds to the echo Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
applauding to the echo Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Synonyms

cheer to the echo