EXTOL (extolled, extolling)

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Irregular inflected forms: extolled    , extolling   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does extol mean? 

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

1. praise, glorify, or honor

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTOL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they extol    ... he / she / it extols   
Past simple: extolled   
Past participle: extolled   
-ing form: extolling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Praise, glorify, or honor

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

exalt; extol; glorify; laud; proclaim

Context example:

glorify one's spouse's cooking

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

praise (express approval of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "extol"):

canonise; canonize (treat as a sacred person)

ensky (exalt to the skies; lift to the skies or to heaven with praise)

crack up (rhapsodize about)

hymn (praise by singing a hymn)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue extol the movie

Derivation:

extoller (someone who communicates high praise)

extolment (an expression of approval and commendation)

 Context examples 

I extolled Traddles in reply, as highly as I could; for I felt that Steerforth rather slighted him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With her children they were in continual raptures, extolling their beauty, courting their notice, and humouring their whims; and such of their time as could be spared from the importunate demands which this politeness made on it, was spent in admiration of whatever her ladyship was doing, if she happened to be doing any thing, or in taking patterns of some elegant new dress, in which her appearance the day before had thrown them into unceasing delight.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

As he had continued to look steadily at me, I took it as a reminder that he objected to being extolled for his consideration.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)