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verb
To invest with dignity or honour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: honor, illustrate, aggrandize, applaud, enthrone, appraise, belaud, bepraise, commend, cry up, eulogize, exalt, extol, glorify, idolize, laud, lionize, magnify, panegyrize, praise, puff, revere, speak well of, transfigure, venerate, worthy
Antonyms: mortify, shame
verb
To give distinction to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: adorn, grace, adore, apparel, array, invest, detail, beautify, bedeck, betrim, commend, decorate, decore, deck, deck out, do up, dress up, dub, embellish, enrich, garnish, mangonize, ornament, prettify, pretty up
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To exalt in rank.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: advance, elevate, ennoble, exalt, honor, prefer, aggrandize, dignify, nobilitate, promote, raise, uplift
Antonyms: demean, humiliate, abase, bring down to size, cut down to size, debase, defame, degrade, demote, depress, discredit, disgrace, dishonour, disparage, downgrade, embase, give a bad name, humble, knock down to size, put someone in their place, reduce, relegate, sink, slur, trim down to size, whittle down to size
verb
To treat as worthy or acceptable; to indulge or condone by acknowledging.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
raise the status of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: lift, raise, elevate
verb
confer dignity or honor upon
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: ennoble
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: honor, honour, reward
History
From Old French dignifier, from Late Latin dignificare, from dignus (“worthy”) + ficare (in comp.), facere (“to make”). See deign and fact.
Across languages
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
