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beatify

verb · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /biˈætɪfaɪ/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: B IY0 AE1 T AH0 F AY2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

verb

Meaning 1

To make blissful.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: blissen, elate, beatify, enrapture, begladden, bright, cheer, fetch, cheer up, cherish, content, delight, elevate, enbliss, exhilarate, fain, gay, gladden, gladden someone's heart, gratify, happify, happy, hearten, jollify, laetificate, light up, make someone's day, perk up, please, raise someone's spirits, rejoice, turn the frown upside down, upcheer, warm someone's heart, warm the cockles of someone's heart

Antonyms: none provided

2

verb

Meaning 2

To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

verb

Meaning 3

To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, Roman-Catholicism

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

verb

Meaning 4

declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: declare, adjudge, hold

5

verb

Meaning 5

make blessedly happy

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: elate, lift up, uplift, pick up, intoxicate

6

verb

Meaning 6

fill with sublime emotion

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies
  • He was inebriated by his phenomenal success

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: exhilarate, tickle pink, inebriate, thrill, exalt

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: elate, lift up, uplift, pick up, intoxicate

History

Etymology

From French béatifier, from Medieval Latin beātifico (“I bless”).

Across languages

Translations

26 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: beatificar — to make blissful
  • Danish: saliggøre — to make blissful
  • Finnish: tehdä autuaaksi — to make blissful
  • Finnish: autuuttaa — to make blissful
  • Norwegian Bokmål: saliggjøre — to make blissful
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: saliggjere — to make blissful
  • Catalan: beatificar — to take step in declaring a person a saint
  • Danish: saligkåre — to take step in declaring a person a saint
  • Finnish: julistaa autuaaksi — to take step in declaring a person a saint
  • Finnish: autuuttaa — to take step in declaring a person a saint
  • French: béatifier — to take step in declaring a person a saint
  • Galician: beatificar — to take step in declaring a person a saint
  • German: seligsprechen — to take step in declaring a person a saint
  • Hungarian: boldoggá avat — to take step in declaring a person a saint
  • Irish: beannaigh — to take step in declaring a person a saint
  • Italian: beatificare — to take step in declaring a person a saint
  • Korean: 시복하다 (sibokhada) — to take step in declaring a person a saint
  • Norwegian Bokmål: saligkåre — to take step in declaring a person a saint
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: saligkåre — to take step in declaring a person a saint
  • Polish: beatyfikować — to take step in declaring a person a saint
  • Portuguese: beatificar — to take step in declaring a person a saint
  • Spanish: beatificar — to take step in declaring a person a saint
  • Swedish: saligförklara — to take step in declaring a person a saint
  • Swedish: beatificera — to take step in declaring a person a saint
  • Welsh: gwynfydoli — to take step in declaring a person a saint
  • Welsh: gwynfydedigo — to take step in declaring a person a saint