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Meanings of make happy in English

Celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities.

Usage of make happy in English
1
I play, to make happy the children, to get bread for me.
Marie
2
But look at the good you can do-thepeople you can make happy.
Blue Bonnet in Boston; or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's
3
May Venus make happy your next pursuit of a pretty slave.
The Lion's Brood
4
What was wealth good for anyhow, save to make happy those we love?
The Wolf's Long Howl
5
Photo: Supplied Which plants make happy bedfellows and which don't?
Radio NZ
6
I have a father, whom I would die to make happy; he will disapprove-
The Contrast
7
He intelligent and kind, and he make happy to me.
Genellan: planetfall
8
And he showed that he could make happy a woman who could understand him.
The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2
9
It was not her purpose on earth to be happy, but to make happy.
The City of Delight: A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerus...
10
She had no one to make happy with her news but her distant mother.
Wife in Name Only
11
Just think how many people you will make happy to-day.
Mary's Rainbow
12
They smiled, not because they were happy but because they wished to make happy.
The Enchanted April
13
He is free to punish, to make happy or unhappy-toruin or to torture.
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of H...
14
My daughter to save, poor little Etienne to make happy,-thoseare my only motives.
The Hated Son
15
How many parents and children, and sisters and brothers, would that news make happy?
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 435 / Volume 17, New Series, M...
16
See for certain that this wouldn't really make happy.
Austenland
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