Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - hearten

(heartens, heartening, heartened) If someone is heartened by something, it encourages them and makes them cheerful. He will have been heartened by the telephone opinion poll published yesterday... The news heartened everybody. = cheer VERB: be V-ed, V n • heartened I feel heartened by her progress... ADJ: v-link ADJ, oft ADJ by n, ADJ that • heartening This is heartening news. ADJ: oft it v-link ADJ to-inf