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All extol synonyms

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verb extol

  • praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
  • exalt — Hold (someone or something) in very high regard; think or speak very highly of.
  • commend — If you commend someone or something, you praise them formally.
  • eulogise — To praise, celebrate or pay homage to someone, especially in an eloquent formal eulogy.
  • eulogize — Praise highly in speech or writing.
  • admire — If you admire someone or something, you like and respect them very much.
  • worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
  • acclaim — If someone or something is acclaimed, they are praised enthusiastically.
  • applaud — When a group of people applaud, they clap their hands in order to show approval, for example when they have enjoyed a play or concert.
  • celebrate — If you celebrate, you do something enjoyable because of a special occasion or to mark someone's success.
  • glorify — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
  • laud — to praise; extol.
  • bless — When someone such as a priest blesses people or things, he asks for God's favour and protection for them.
  • boost — If one thing boosts another, it causes it to increase, improve, or be more successful.
  • hymn — a song or ode in praise or honor of God, a deity, a nation, etc.
  • magnify — to increase the apparent size of, as a lens does.
  • push — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
  • rave — to talk wildly, as in delirium.
  • root — Elihu [el-uh-hyoo] /ˈɛl əˌhyu/ (Show IPA), 1845–1937, U.S. lawyer and statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1912.
  • stroke — a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur: The defendant and his/her attorney must appear in court.
  • cry up — to praise highly; extol
  • hand it to — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • make much of — great in quantity, measure, or degree: too much cake.
  • panegyrize — to deliver or write a panegyric about; eulogize.
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