"eulogize" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: eulogizes [present, singular, third-person], eulogizing [participle, present], eulogized [participle, past], eulogized [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} eulogize (third-person singular simple present eulogizes, present participle eulogizing, simple past and past participle eulogized)
  1. (transitive) To praise, celebrate or pay homage to (someone), especially in an eloquent formal eulogy. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Funeral Synonyms: eulogise (english: non-Oxford British English) Related terms: eulogist, eulogistic, eulogizer Translations (Translations): أَبَّنَ (ʔabbana) (Arabic), възхвалявам (vǎzhvaljavam) (Bulgarian), 頌揚 (Chinese Cantonese), 颂扬 (zung⁶ joeng⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), lovprise (Danish), berømme (Danish), loven (Dutch), preisen (German), adhmhol (Irish), hylle (Norwegian Bokmål), elogiar (Portuguese), воспевать (vospevatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), петь хвалу (petʹ xvalu) [imperfective] (Russian)

Inflected forms

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