单词 | exalt |
释义 | ex·alt transitive verb 1. < I will exalt my throne above the stars of God — Isa 14:13(Authorized Version) > < sold at exalted prices > 2. < the king exalted his victorious admiral to a place on the privy council > : dignify < a nation exalted by fair dealings > 3. < my father exalted dramatic poetry above all other kinds — W.B.Yeats > : magnify, extol, glorify < exalt ye the Lord — Ps 99:5(Authorized Version) > 4. obsolete 5. a. < exalting the imagination to new flights of fancy > b. c. archaic d. < virulence exalted by addition of mucin to a bacterial culture > also < exalt a virus by repeated rapid passage through susceptible hosts > intransitive verb < the power of brilliant conversation to excite and exalt > < the exalting beauty of the forest > Synonyms: < crisis government, of course, inevitably exalts any agency best situated for supplying vigorous and effective direction of affairs — F.A.Ogg & Harold Zink > magnify means to increase markedly in actual or apparent size or significance < kind, quiet, nearsighted eyes, which his round spectacles magnified into lambent moons — Margaret Deland > < public opinion which thus magnifies patriotism into a religion — W.C.Brownell > < to minimize the power of the judiciary and the executive, and magnify the power of the legislature — V.L.Parrington > aggrandize indicates making great in power, authority, sway, or eminence < if we aggrandize ourselves at the expense of the Mahrattas — Duke of Wellington †1852 > |
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