applaud
verb (used without object)
to clap the hands as an expression of approval, appreciation, acclamation, etc..
applauder
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a word derived from
applaud.
Example Sentences
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The United Nations agreement was a brilliant gesture, but not even its loudest applauder claimed that it organized the anti-Axis world for war or peace.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like the rat-rat-tat of a quick-firing gun was the appreciative volley of recognition from the solitary applauder.
From Thoroughbreds by William Alexander Fraser
Perhaps a button-holder, like this Trunnion, never had so attentive an auditor, or so hearty an applauder of anecdotes, good or bad.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury
