perk up

“If you avoid getting caught, a little affair can perk up a marriage,” says Lucy, a 50-something Californian.

And yet we find your partnerships perk up, while the single among you are being solicited for more than just a vacant tryst.

The senses immediately perk up with the new smells, faint sounds of music and colors meant to belong in nature.

They perk up wonderfully as the barometer falls and the damp makes itself felt in their warm cases of glass.

After lunch he would always begin to perk up and deny that he had been really drunk the night before.

In lifting her arms to perk up the bow at her throat she knocked a hat off the bracket.

But, in this other lot, the shoots are commencin' to perk up, an' insec's have stirred the mold.

Aunty Rose declared that Carolyn May began at once to perk up.