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单词 eulogize
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Definition of eulogize in English:

eulogize

(British eulogise)
verb ˈjuːlədʒʌɪzˈjuləˌdʒaɪz
[with object]
  • Praise highly in speech or writing.

    he was eulogized as a rock star
    a plaque that eulogizes the workers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • My point is that some people spend their entire lives breaking down traditional morality and then when they die they are eulogized as if they did as much for the world as Mother Theresa.
    • He admires and eulogizes them because they all have good hearts.
    • There were many speeches made eulogising Mattie who was such a popular TD and such a lovely man.
    • The rabbi once again mumbled some Hebrew, and some Aramaic, prayers, again explaining precisely nothing to the mourners, and again not eulogizing the deceased.
    • The opening track unfurls at a crawl, like a narcotizing drip of slow realization, as he eulogizes the rock aspirations of his younger self, and it's unclear whether he's damning music or his belief in it.
    • Even though nightclubs and rock shows are notoriously wicked places, those who died will be eulogized as being ‘good’ people who did not deserve to die.
    • In tributes and memorial speeches Paul has been eulogized by political friends and foes as honest, principled, and unpretentious.
    • A few writers got together and eulogized the front man.
    • Last night, I spent about an hour eulogizing the wonder of the internet to someone whom, I think, is probably not that convinced about it.
    • And though his essays never made it to popular publications, mainstream newspapers and web sites have eulogized him.
    • The lost man, a senator from Georgia so esteemed that colleagues cried when eulogizing him on the Senate floor.
    • I get too emotional if I'm speaking, eulogizing somebody I loved.
    • His gang leader, whose only genuine motivation in the film seems to be revenge for his murdered father, is heard at the close eulogizing the street gangs and lamenting that ‘No one will even know we were here.’
    • As true sycophants, we sing odes eulogizing rulers, while creative literary minds, great artists are simply ignored.
    • Still, when Thoreau died in 1862, Emerson eulogized him as a failure, albeit beloved: ‘He seemed born for greatness and I cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition.’
    • After singing and hearing many songs eulogizing him and his thought, these interviewees were convinced that he was the dearest, the wisest, and the greatest.
    • And this is a man that was eulogized across the world.
    • Our joys and heartbreaks are permanently eulogized in each CD each year.
    • I took a crack at it, describing my favorite scene while eulogizing him last year.
    • A common link is that they played in the capital and couldn't tackle but the press eulogised them as flair players.
    Synonyms
    praise enthusiastically, go into raptures about/over, wax lyrical about, sing the praises of, praise to the skies, heap praise on, rhapsodize about/over, rave about/over, enthuse about/over, gush about/over, throw bouquets at, express delight over, acclaim, extol
    informal go wild about, be mad about, go on about
    British informal big someone/something up
    North American informal ballyhoo
    dated cry someone/something up
    rare laud, panegyrize

Derivatives

  • eulogist

  • noun ˈjuːlədʒɪstˈjulədʒəst
    • A person who praises someone or something highly in speech or writing, especially someone who gives a tribute at a funeral.

      he was every bit the gentleman that his eulogists said he was
      Example sentencesExamples
      • eulogists of aggression, war, and conquest
      • I like to think Kevin would have appreciated honesty from his eulogists.
      • The eulogists - and many of them knew Gerry a lot longer than this writer - have variously described him as an even-tempered, good-humoured and generous man, traits of his character we all knew and recognised.
      • These coincidences of temperament and manner should interest not only literary historians and eulogists of The Distinguished Sons of Saint Louis.
  • eulogistic

  • adjective -ˈdʒɪstɪk
    • Her own art, according to a eulogistic website, ‘questions notions of physical normality in a society that considers her deformed because she was born without arms.’
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Hundreds of eulogistic poems filled the newspapers.
      • This apperception is indispensable because in the past non-state actors have been mere critics instead of playing their rightful role as eulogistic vehicles in the course of development.
  • eulogistically

  • adverb-ˈdʒɪstɪk(ə)li
    • In its lead editorial a few days ago it waxed eulogistically about the former Tory minister.
 
 

Definition of eulogize in US English:

eulogize

(British eulogise)
verbˈyo͞oləˌjīzˈjuləˌdʒaɪz
[with object]
  • Praise highly in speech or writing.

    a plaque that eulogizes the workers
    contemporaries eulogized him as a great US senator
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Even though nightclubs and rock shows are notoriously wicked places, those who died will be eulogized as being ‘good’ people who did not deserve to die.
    • In tributes and memorial speeches Paul has been eulogized by political friends and foes as honest, principled, and unpretentious.
    • I get too emotional if I'm speaking, eulogizing somebody I loved.
    • His gang leader, whose only genuine motivation in the film seems to be revenge for his murdered father, is heard at the close eulogizing the street gangs and lamenting that ‘No one will even know we were here.’
    • A common link is that they played in the capital and couldn't tackle but the press eulogised them as flair players.
    • And this is a man that was eulogized across the world.
    • He admires and eulogizes them because they all have good hearts.
    • And though his essays never made it to popular publications, mainstream newspapers and web sites have eulogized him.
    • After singing and hearing many songs eulogizing him and his thought, these interviewees were convinced that he was the dearest, the wisest, and the greatest.
    • A few writers got together and eulogized the front man.
    • I took a crack at it, describing my favorite scene while eulogizing him last year.
    • The lost man, a senator from Georgia so esteemed that colleagues cried when eulogizing him on the Senate floor.
    • Our joys and heartbreaks are permanently eulogized in each CD each year.
    • There were many speeches made eulogising Mattie who was such a popular TD and such a lovely man.
    • Last night, I spent about an hour eulogizing the wonder of the internet to someone whom, I think, is probably not that convinced about it.
    • The rabbi once again mumbled some Hebrew, and some Aramaic, prayers, again explaining precisely nothing to the mourners, and again not eulogizing the deceased.
    • My point is that some people spend their entire lives breaking down traditional morality and then when they die they are eulogized as if they did as much for the world as Mother Theresa.
    • The opening track unfurls at a crawl, like a narcotizing drip of slow realization, as he eulogizes the rock aspirations of his younger self, and it's unclear whether he's damning music or his belief in it.
    • Still, when Thoreau died in 1862, Emerson eulogized him as a failure, albeit beloved: ‘He seemed born for greatness and I cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition.’
    • As true sycophants, we sing odes eulogizing rulers, while creative literary minds, great artists are simply ignored.
    Synonyms
    praise enthusiastically, go into raptures about, go into raptures over, wax lyrical about, sing the praises of, praise to the skies, heap praise on, rhapsodize about, rhapsodize over, rave about, rave over, enthuse about, enthuse over, gush about, gush over, throw bouquets at, express delight over, acclaim, extol
 
 
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