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What is the verb for applause?

What's the verb for applause? Here's the word you're looking for.

applaud
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To express approval (of something) by clapping the hands.
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To praise, or express approval for something or someone.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “They begin to applaud loudly, their hands coming together to form a symphony all its own.”
      “Only a man who loved someone beyond their looks could get over this hurdle, and for that, I applaud him.”
applauding
plaud
  1. (obsolete) To applaud.
  2. Examples:
    1. Plaud says he's personally administered thousands of PPG exams during his 30-year career.”
      “For one contrarian view, Plaud critiqued the psychological behaviorism of Staats.”
      “Television commentator Tucker Carlson no longer wears his signature bow ties and the MIT beaver mascot is now going tieless, but Joe Plaud remains a big fan.”
applauds
applaudeth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of applaud
plauds
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plaud
applaudest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of applaud
applauded
  1. simple past tense and past participle of applaud
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Should excellence in the high arts be acclaimed, in the same way as achievements in sport are ritually applauded?”
      “But instead of being applauded for a job well done, the agents are being accused of racial profiling.”
      “The politicians of the Walloon region should be applauded for using their authority for the public good.”
plauded
  1. simple past tense and past participle of plaud
plauding
  1. present participle of plaud
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