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glorify

/glawr-uh-fahy, glohr-/US // ˈglɔr əˌfaɪ, ˈgloʊr- //UK // (ˈɡlɔːrɪˌfaɪ) //

荣耀,称颂,颂扬,荣膺

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    glo·ri·fied, glo·ri·fy·ing.

    • : to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
    • : to honor with praise, admiration, or worship; extol.
    • : to make glorious; invest with glory.
    • : to praise the glory of, especially as an act of worship.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbpraise
Forms: glorified
verbadore, idolize
Forms: glorified
Antonyms

Examples

  • Birds named for people proliferated in 19th century ornithology, glorifying the namers themselves or figures they favored.

  • For some, drones are nothing but glorified tech toys to splurge on, but many of the latest models have proved that they can be used for both small and large-scale cinematic work.

  • All three actors pop in for what amount to glorified cameos in F9.

  • The trouble started when, in the mid-1920s, the Communist Party elevated a number of uneducated men from the proletariat into positions of authority in the scientific community, to glorify the “average man.”

  • After 40 years of trying, the legislature got rid of the state’s official song, “Maryland, My Maryland,” an anthem that glorifies the Confederacy.

  • This appears to glorify a crime,” said Cheek, “as does the apparent emphasis on their illegal and ill-fated invasion.

  • To treat these lovers of violent death otherwise is only to glorify them.

  • The wine world tends to glorify the winemaker when really it takes a team of hard-working people to tend vineyards and make wine.

  • The good news for those who think such movies at once glorify and trivialize gun violence is that R.I.P.D. bombed.

  • Another reason I think people have children is to glorify their own ego.

  • There came therefore a voice out of heaven, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."

  • And now, Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

  • All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.

  • Cooke used his literary talents to glorify the plantation type of living and the heroic, military deeds of the war itself.

  • Obtain for me, I beseech thee, a happy death, that I may praise and glorify thy might and kindness forever in heaven.