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worshiping

/wur-ship/US // ˈwɜr ʃɪp //UK // (ˈwɜːʃɪp) //

崇拜,敬拜,敬礼,崇拜的人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
    • : formal or ceremonious rendering of such honor and homage: They attended worship this morning.
    • : adoring reverence or regard: excessive worship of business success.
    • : the object of adoring reverence or regard.
    • : British. a title of honor used in addressing or mentioning certain magistrates and others of high rank or station.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    wor·shiped, wor·ship·ing or wor·shipped, wor·ship·ping.

    • : to render religious reverence and homage to.
    • : to feel an adoring reverence or regard for.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    wor·shiped, wor·ship·ing or wor·shipped, wor·ship·ping.

    • : to render religious reverence and homage, as to a deity.
    • : to attend services of divine worship.
    • : to feel an adoring reverence or regard.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounhonoring, glorification
Forms: worshipped, worshipping
verbhonor, glorify
Forms: worshipped, worshipping

Examples

  • I also am grateful they recognized the indispensable role that faith based, not-for-profit organizations and places of worship have in serving their communities during a crisis.

  • When actual Persians came marauding in 614, it was the only place of worship they didn’t torch…The Magi had a lively postbiblical career.

  • Brandy, a breakout singing sensation of the 1990s (“I Wanna Be Down”), grew up worshiping Houston.

  • In the God-fearing, heavily Baptist town of West Memphis, devil worshiping became a scourge to exorcise.

  • He was the self-appointed defender of the Arabs against the “fire-worshiping Persians,” and against the Americans.

  • Romney was raised in the Detroit suburbs as an Al Kaline–worshiping Tigers fan.

  • By his account, he was brought up in Los Angeles by a drug-dealer father and a frequently nude, goddess-worshiping mother.

  • Her style was a great contrast to the earlier hero-worshiping and glorification of ante-bellum days in Virginia.

  • She listened to my stories and descriptions with a most flattering interest, and I soon found myself worshiping her as a goddess.

  • I see you on the terrace in the sunshine and in the moonlight with arms outstretched to the heavens, worshiping the elements.

  • Livy and Clara are having a royal time worshiping the old masters, and I as good a time gritting my ineffectual teeth over them.

  • He had borne his journey apparently well, and Sylvia looked at him now with worshiping eyes.