释义 |
dignifydig‧ni‧fy /ˈdɪɡnɪfaɪ/ verb (past tense and past participle dignified, present participle dignifying) [transitive] dignifyOrigin: 1400-1500 Old French dignifier, from Latin dignus ‘deserving admiration’ VERB TABLEdignify |
Present | I, you, we, they | dignify | | he, she, it | dignifies | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | dignified | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have dignified | | he, she, it | has dignified | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had dignified | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will dignify | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have dignified |
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Present | I | am dignifying | | he, she, it | is dignifying | | you, we, they | are dignifying | Past | I, he, she, it | was dignifying | | you, we, they | were dignifying | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been dignifying | | he, she, it | has been dignifying | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been dignifying | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be dignifying | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been dignifying |
- A huge portrait of the couple dignified the living room wall.
- Slice was perched along the sides of a cleft in the mountains that couldn't be dignified by the name of valley.
► a dignified exit (=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’. |