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Rally

noun
(past & past part. rallied; pres. part. rallying)
1.
A large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm.  Synonym: mass meeting.
2.
The feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort.  Synonym: rallying.  "He feared the rallying of their troops for a counterattack"
3.
A marked recovery of strength or spirits during an illness.
4.
An automobile race run over public roads.
5.
(sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes.  Synonym: exchange.
verb
(past & past part. rallied; pres. part. rallying)
1.
Gather.  Synonyms: beat up, drum up.
2.
Call to arms; of military personnel.  Synonyms: call up, mobilise, mobilize.  Antonym: demobilize.
3.
Gather or bring together.  Synonyms: come up, muster, muster up, summon.  "She rallied her intellect" , "Summon all your courage"
4.
Return to a former condition.  Synonym: rebound.  "The stock market rallied"
5.
Harass with persistent criticism or carping.  Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit.  "Don't ride me so hard over my failure" , "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie"



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"Rally" Quotes from Famous Books



... was more than anxious. He felt desperately sorry for poor little Tom Binns, who had been tremendously proud of being chosen to pitch for his team, and he was afraid, as were the others, that the sudden rally was more ...
— The Boy Scout Fire Fighters - or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed • Robert Maitland
... supreme effort to rally his powers of self-control. The envelope lay between them—but out of his own reach and that spelled the ...
— The Tyranny of Weakness • Charles Neville Buck
... among its rural population, directly beneath the eyes of the highest authority of the State. The danger to valuable and movable property would be too imminent, and those who felt an interest in its preservation would not fail to rally in its defence. It is precisely on this principle that in the end property will protect itself as against the popular inroads which are inevitable, should the present tendencies receive no check. ...
— New York • James Fenimore Cooper
... room, where first he saw the Duke of Gloucester, De Lacy found Sir John de Bury. The old Knight was slow to rally from his wound; and being scarcely convalescent when Richard drew in his forces, he had been left in command of Pontefract in place of Sir Robert Wallingford, who went with the King. But lately his strength was coming back to him with swift pulsations and he was growing irritably impatient ...
— Beatrix of Clare • John Reed Scott
... days was enough to use up in a little time any house that wa'n't fire-proof; and when that was preached to pieces, they put up another shelter in its place. This is it. And now't the land a'n't used no more for the puppose 'twas lent for, it goes back nat'rally to the estate 'twas took from, and the buildin's ...
— The Man Who Stole A Meeting-House - 1878, From "Coupon Bonds" • J. T. Trowbridge


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