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UK
/ɹˈæli/
]
[ US /ˈɹæɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈɹæɫi/ ]
VERB
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harass with persistent criticism or carping
Don't ride me so hard over my failure
His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie
The children teased the new teacher - call to arms; of military personnel
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gather
drum up support -
gather or bring together
muster the courage to do something
Summon all your courage
she rallied her intellect -
return to a former condition
The jilted lover soon rallied and found new friends
The stock market rallied
NOUN
- a large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm
- a marked recovery of strength or spirits during an illness
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(sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes
after a short rally Connors won the point - an automobile race run over public roads
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the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort
he singled to start a rally in the 9th inning
he feared the rallying of their troops for a counterattack
How To Use rally In A Sentence
- In my view his confrontational, gladiatorial style has been a major contributor to the widespread disdain of the British public for politicians generally. Times, Sunday Times
- He literally danced his music into being, conducting his bass players, drummers and horn section with his hips.
- Some of my remarks here are directed toward conventional scientists, who generally refrain from commenting critically on the wild ideas of a few of their colleagues because it is bad manners.
- Naturally, this makes interpersonal relations, especially with societies unexposed to the advantages of the American lifestyle, a little difficult.
- So far, only a couple of the trees (literally two) have been found to be successful in fending off beetle attacks, using chemical and physical responses similar to those in lower-elevation tree species, such as lodgepole pine and Douglas fir. Louisa Willcox: Whitebark Pine: Functionally Gone in Much of the Greater Yellowstone
- And there are a lot of so-called federalists, people who are just generally opposed to the extension of federal power and who object, who say look, this is the same thing that we objected to when liberals did it. CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2005
- Labour is naturally a bit shell-shocked finding itself out of office for the first time in 13 years. Times, Sunday Times
- The rally has defied all odds and logic with only two, short interruptions since it began its climb in August 1982.
- Architecturally they incorporate the low roofs, polygonal towers and shallow, semicircular domes of the Byzantine mode.
- However, added the mayor, city hall will naturally respect the court's order, whatever it may be.