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adoring

/uh-dawr, uh-dohr/US // əˈdɔr, əˈdoʊr //UK // (əˈdɔː) //

崇拜,崇拜的,爱慕,爱慕的人

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    a·dored, a·dor·ing.

    • : to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
    • : to pay divine honor to; worship: to adore God.
    • : to like or admire very much: I simply adore the way your hair is done!
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    a·dored, a·dor·ing.

    • : to worship.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verblove intensely

Examples

  • While sports fans adore athletes, NFL players said they revere anime characters.

  • The other grandparents seem to be just fine with, and perhaps even adore and encourage, the child's behavior, so we're glad to defer all the holidays to them.

  • At 17, she feels lucky to be married to a handsome young man who adores her.

  • He adores it — the winter activities, the bonhomie in restaurants, the perfect summers.

  • I adored this meringue-like treat included in my roundup of 14 American regional cookies from last year.

  • The process of co-opting black music and selling it back to the adoring public in whiteface is as American as apple pie.

  • Chestnut was last, carried on a yellow chariot through a sea of adoring fans.

  • His mere existence is met alternately with thousands of adoring cheers or thousands of hateful jeers.

  • Adoring crowds stand and sit transfixed, cheering and waving Thai flags as the charismatic Suthep Thaugsuban thunders away.

  • On its way to the stadium, the team passes through the Grove down the Walk of Champions, mobbed by adoring fans.

  • He might be answered thus: Esteem your ancestors, without adoring them.

  • She felt that she could no longer conceal her own annoyance, and she was glad of this adoring audience of one.

  • I went home to chambers; Allen stayed adoring the unexampled Longepierre.

  • Louis the Fifteenth, another God-defying, self-adoring sensualist.

  • The only way to return to God is by neglecting the creature we have adored, and adoring the God whom we have neglected.