EULOGIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eulogize mean? 

• EULOGIZE (verb)
  The verb EULOGIZE has 1 sense:

1. praise formally and eloquently

  Familiarity information: EULOGIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EULOGIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they eulogize    ... he / she / it eulogizes   
Past simple: eulogized   
Past participle: eulogized   
-ing form: eulogizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Praise formally and eloquently

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

eulogise; eulogize

Context example:

The dead woman was eulogized at the funeral

Hypernyms (to "eulogize" is one way to...):

praise (express approval of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

eulogy (a formal expression of praise for someone who has died recently)

 Context examples 

And while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens—there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)