perk up
Examples of perking
perking
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Although the male's attention seems to be
perking up, he in fact becomes less involved as the female continues to talk about the article.
He is
perking up a little.
From the
Hansard archive
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