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单词 dignify
释义
dignifydig‧ni‧fy /ˈdɪɡnɪfaɪ/ verb (past tense and past participle dignified, present participle dignifying, third person singular dignifies) [transitive] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINdignify
Origin:
1400-1500 Old French dignifier, from Latin dignus ‘deserving admiration’
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
dignify
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theydignify
he, she, itdignifies
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theydignified
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave dignified
he, she, ithas dignified
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad dignified
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill dignify
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have dignified
Continuous Form
PresentIam dignifying
he, she, itis dignifying
you, we, theyare dignifying
PastI, he, she, itwas dignifying
you, we, theywere dignifying
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been dignifying
he, she, ithas been dignifying
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been dignifying
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be dignifying
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been dignifying
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • A huge portrait of the couple dignified the living room wall.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Slice was perched along the sides of a cleft in the mountains that couldn't be dignified by the name of valley.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=when someone leaves in a way that makes people respect them)· Marco did his best to make a dignified exit, but with the amount he’d drunk, it proved difficult.
to make something or someone seem better or more important than they really are, especially by using a particular word to describe themdignify somebody/something with something I cannot dignify him with the name ‘physician’.
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