dignify
[verb]
Synonyms: exalt, aggrandize, distinguish, ennoble, erect, glorify, honor, magnify, sublime, uprear

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Antonyms: demean
Contrasted words: abase, debase

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dig‧ni‧fy /ˈdɪɡnəfaɪ, ˈdɪɡnɪfaɪ/ verb (past tense and past participle dignified, present participle dignifying, third person singular dignifies) [transitive]
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Old French; Origin: dignifier, from Latin dignus 'deserving admiration']
to make something or someone seem better or more important than they really are, especially by using a particular word to describe them
dignify somebody/something with something
I cannot dignify him with the name ‘physician’.

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