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rally

verb

1 the hard-pressed French troops rallied and held their position:

reassemble, regroup, re-form, reunite, gather together again, get together again;

round up.

▷antonyms disperse.

2 the exiled monarch rallied an Irish Catholic army:

muster, marshal, mobilize, raise, call up, call to arms, recruit, enlist, conscript, draft;

assemble, bring together, call together, summon, gather, gather together, round up, mass, collect;

formal convoke;

archaic levy.

▷antonyms demobilize, disband.

3 they rallied behind a single, ambitious goal:

come/get together, band together, assemble, group, join, join together, join forces, link (up), combine, unite, ally, collaborate, cooperate, work together, act together, pull together.

▷antonyms separate, split up.

4 he tried to rally support for more radical policies:

gather, accumulate, collect, assemble, amass, muster, marshal, organize, round up, garner, harvest;

get up, raise, mobilize, whip up.

5 the shock grew less and her spirits rallied | share prices have rallied:

recover, improve, get better, pick up, revive, come back, make a comeback, rebound, bounce back, perk up, look up, take a turn for the better, turn the/a corner, be given a new lease of life, take on a new lease of life;

emerge from something, get over something, shake something off;

informal come up smiling.

▷antonyms deteriorate.

noun

1 there was a rally in support of the strike:

meeting, mass meeting, gathering, assembly, tweetup;

demonstration, march, protest march, parade;

informal get-together, demo.

2 blizzards caused a short-lived rally in oil prices:

recovery, upturn, improvement, revival, comeback, rebound, resurgence, renewal, a turn for the better, reaction;

technical dead cat bounce.

▷antonyms slump.

rally (1) Oxford Dictionary of English