0 past simple and past participle of buoy
2 to make someone feel happier or more confident about a situation:
3 to support something and make it more successful:
He offered a bold theory, buoyed by its consistency with the data of embryonic development.
For years, the scientific literature has been buoyed by the influx of money brought in by advertising for this or that drug.
It places racism near the apex of our current social evolution - buoyed by the upward thrust of the spiral.
Yet the people were sustained and buoyed by the knowledge that they were at least going to be free.
It is understandable: buoyed by money and power, people do forget.
It does not want to be buoyed up with false hopes.
It is a recovery led by press releases, buoyed up by mistaken forecasts and advancing on the crest of a wave of pre-election hype.
During the war we buoyed up their hopes through broadcasts and other means.
