BEATIFY (beatified)

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Irregular inflected form: beatified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does beatify mean? 

• BEATIFY (verb)
  The verb BEATIFY has 3 senses:

1. fill with sublime emotion

2. make blessedly happy

3. declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood

  Familiarity information: BEATIFY used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEATIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they beatify    ... he / she / it beatifies   
Past simple: beatified   
Past participle: beatified   
-ing form: beatifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fill with sublime emotion

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

beatify; exalt; exhilarate; inebriate; thrill; tickle pink

Context example:

He was inebriated by his phenomenal success

Hypernyms (to "beatify" is one way to...):

elate; intoxicate; lift up; pick up; uplift (fill with high spirits; fill with optimism)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

beatification (the action of rendering supremely blessed and extremely happy)

beatification (a state of supreme happiness)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make blessedly happy

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "beatify" is one way to...):

elate; intoxicate; lift up; pick up; uplift (fill with high spirits; fill with optimism)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

beatification (the action of rendering supremely blessed and extremely happy)

beatification (a state of supreme happiness)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican

Hypernyms (to "beatify" is one way to...):

adjudge; declare; hold (declare to be)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

beatification ((Roman Catholic Church) an act of the Pope who declares that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration; a first step toward canonization)

 Context examples 

Seldom except in books do the dying utter memorable words, see visions, or depart with beatified countenances, and those who have sped many parting souls know that to most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)