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: --
They go home buoyed up by the hope that they are going to get a good start.
I have some experience of dealing with a strong currency buoyed up by hydrocarbons.
The civil disobedience movement is always buoyed up by extremists.
They have been buoyed up with the hope that changes were going to take place.
This provision is required so that the dredged approach channel may be extended, lighted, buoyed and subject to the harbour master's jurisdiction.
Every time we approach this exercise we are all buoyed up by the hope that the operation will not be necessary again.
Our exporters require to be buoyed up by a weak rather than strong currency.
During the war we buoyed up their hopes through broadcasts and other means.
