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单词 eulogize
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eulogize
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To eulogize someone is to talk about how much you respect and admire them, especially as a memorial after their death. At funerals, sometimes several people eulogize the deceased person.
You can eulogize a living person — particularly if she has retired from a job — or even a place or a group. You might eulogize your elementary school after it's been closed, or eulogize the coach of your basketball team after she's left for a job in another town. The verb eulogize comes from eulogy, a speech that praises, from the Greek root eulogia, "praise" or "fine language," from eu, "well," and -logia, "speaking."
WORD FAMILY
eulogize: eulogized, eulogizes, eulogizing+/eulogise: eulogised, eulogises, eulogising/eulogist: eulogists/eulogistic: eulogistically/eulogy: eulogies, eulogise, eulogist, eulogistic, eulogize
USAGE EXAMPLES
What point is there in eulogizing her, when she said it best herself?
The New Yorker(Dec 28, 2016)
One of the city’s last pay phones eulogizes itself—with a Brooklyn accent.
The New Yorker(Dec 26, 2016)
Russia observed a national day of mourning on Monday, with the main government television channels repeatedly playing mournful music and eulogizing those killed.
New York Times(Dec 26, 2016)
v praise formally and eloquently
The dead woman was eulogized at the funeral
Syn|Hyper
eulogise
praise
express approval of
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