glorify

v.赞美

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
glorify (verb)
transitive verb
1.
a) to make by bestowing honor, praise, or admiration - glorious
b) to elevate to celestial - glory
2.
to light up brilliantly
3.
a) to represent as glorious - extol a song glorifying romantic love
b) to cause to be or seem to be better than the actual condition - the new position is just a glorified version of the old stockroom job
4.
to give glory to (as in worship)
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
glorify (verb)
1.
to assign a high status or value to
SYNONYMS:
aggrandize, canonize, deify, dignify, elevate, ennoble, enshrine, ensky, enthrone, glorify, magnify
RELATED WORDS:
boost, lift, promote, raise, upgrade, uplift; heighten, intensify; idealize, romanticize, sanitize, sugarcoat; acclaim, extol ( extoll), honor, laud, praise
NEAR ANTONYMS:
belittle, decry, depreciate, detract, disparage, minimize
abase, degrade, demean, humble, humiliate
glorify (verb)
2.
to offer honor or respect to (someone) as a divine power
SYNONYMS:
adore, deify, glorify, revere, reverence, venerate
RELATED WORDS:
admire, honor, love, regard, respect; apotheosize, canonize, dignify, exalt, lionize, magnify; extol ( extoll), laud, praise; delight, gratify, please, satisfy
NEAR ANTONYMS:
blaspheme, desecrate, profane, violate; affront, dishonor, disrespect, insult, offend, outrage, pique, ridicule, scorn, slight; displease; defame, disparage, libel, malign, slander, slur, smear
glorify (verb)
3.
to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively
SYNONYMS:
ballyhoo, blow up, crack up, cry up, glorify, trumpet, tub-thump
RELATED WORDS:
acclaim, applaud, extol ( extoll), laud, magnify; commend, compliment, eulogize; advance, advertise, announce, blare, blaze, blazon, boost, herald, offer, plug, promote, publicize; assert, aver, claim, declare, lay down, make out, proclaim, pronounce
glorify (verb)
4.
to proclaim the glory of
SYNONYMS:
bless, carol, celebrate, emblazon, exalt, extol ( extoll), glorify, hymn, laud, magnify, resound
RELATED WORDS:
adore, belaud, deify, idolize, worship; acclaim, applaud, commend, compliment, hail, renown, salute; chant, cheer, eulogize, rhapsodize; cite; flatter; crack up, recommend, tout
NEAR ANTONYMS:
blame, censure, reprehend, reprobate; criticize, reprove; admonish, chide, keelhaul, rebuke, reprimand, reproach; castigate, lambaste ( lambast)
glorify (verb)
5.
to represent or think of as better than reality would warrant
SYNONYMS:
glamorize ( glamourize), glamour (up), glorify, romanticize
RELATED WORDS:
heroicize, heroize; euphemize, poeticize, soften, sweeten; adulate, canonize, deify, idolize; aggrandize, dignify, ennoble, enshrine, enthrone, magnify
NEAR ANTONYMS:
belittle, decry, denigrate, deprecate, disparage, minimize, put down
deglamorize
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