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rallyingadjective marked by or expressive of mild or good-natured teasinghe took his friends' rallying remarks about his girlfriend good-naturedly bantering, chaffing, fooling, funning, jesting, joking, joshing, kidding, quizzical, razzing, ribbing bandying, quippingbaiting, deriding, derisive, derisory, hassling, heckling, jeering, mocking, needling, ridiculing, tauntingcontemptuous, disdainful, sarcastic, scornful rallyingnounan act of gathering forces together to renew or attempt an effortthe rallying of students to support our petition for better bus service was made a lot easier by this morning's subzero temperatures marshaling(also marshalling), mobilization, rally call, call-up, summonsconvening, convocation, muster, mustering call to arms rallyingverb1present participle of rallyto assemble and make ready for actionrallied the Red Cross workers to deal with the devastating earthquake marshaling(or marshalling), mobilizing, mustering arranging, grouping, lining up, ordering, organizingcalling (up), convening, summoningactivatingcollecting, rounding up demobbing(chiefly British), demobilizing disarranging, disordering, disorganizing, disrupting, disturbingdeactivating, dismissingbreaking up, disbanding, dissolving, splitting (up) to become healthy and strong again after illness or weaknessdespite the best care that medicine could provide, the elderly woman never really rallied from her fractured hip coming back, convalescing, gaining, healing, mending, pulling round(chiefly British), recouping, recovering, recuperating, snapping back coming around, coming round, coming to, improving, picking up, revivingcheering (up), perking (up)pulling through, survivingrecruiting ailing, collapsing, coming down, sickeningdeclining, degenerating, deteriorating, fading, failing, languishing, sinking, wasting (away), weakening, wilting, withering, worseningregressing, relapsing to regain a former or normal stateafter wavering a moment on the balance beam, she quickly rallied and finished with a fine dismount bouncing (back), coming back, rebounding, recovering, snapping back reanimating, revitalizing, reviving making a comeback(or staging a comeback) declining, failing, worsening rallyingverb2present participle of rallyto make fun of in a good-natured wayhis friends rallied him for missing an easy putt chaffing, jiving, joking, joshing, kidding, razzing, ribbing, riding, roasting, teasing banteringfooling, funning, stringing alongjesting, quipping, wisecrackinggagging, japing, jollying, yukking(or yucking, slang) goofing on(slang), taking the mickey out of(British) in 1957 |