1) Become glad or happy 2) Chap has to include cheer 3) Cheer 4) Cheer up 5) Elate 6) Hearten 7) Make glad or happy 8) Make happy 9) Make joyful 10) To cause to become more glad 11) To make glad 1) Cheer 2) Elate 3) Encourage 
• (v. t.) To make glad; to cheer; to please; to gratify; to rejoice; to exhilarate. • (v. i.) To be or become glad; to rejoice.
Glad'den transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Gladdened ; present participle & verbal noun Gladdening .] [ See Glad , transitive verb ] To make glad; to cheer; to please; to gratify; to rejoice; to ...Glad'den intransitive verb To be or become glad; to rejoice. « The vast Pacific gladdens with the freight.» Wordsworth. 
[v] - make glad or happy 2. [v] - become glad or happy
verb become glad or happy
to make glad.