rally round
Definition of rally round
chiefly British
: to join together to support (someone or something) in a difficult time or situation We rallied round our neighbors when their house burned down. When the town library lost its funding, the community rallied round it.
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Word by Word Definitions
: to muster for a common purpose
: to recall to order
: to arouse for action
: a mustering of scattered forces to renew an effort
: a summoning up of strength or courage after weakness or dejection
: a recovery of price after a decline
: to attack with raillery : banter
: having every part of the surface or circumference equidistant from the center
: cylindrical
: approximately round
: around
: something (such as a circle, globe, or ring) that is round
: a knot of people
: a circle of things
: to make round
: to make (the lips) round and protruded (as in the pronunciation of \ü\)
: to pronounce with lip rounding : labialize
: around
: all during : throughout
: whisper
: to speak to in a whisper
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