EXALT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exalt mean? 

• EXALT (verb)
  The verb EXALT has 4 senses:

1. praise, glorify, or honor

2. fill with sublime emotion

3. heighten or intensify

4. raise in rank, character, or status

  Familiarity information: EXALT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXALT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they exalt    ... he / she / it exalts   
Past simple: exalted   
Past participle: exalted   
-ing form: exalting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Praise, glorify, or honor

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

exalt; extol; glorify; laud; proclaim

Context example:

glorify one's spouse's cooking

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

praise (express approval of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "exalt"):

canonise; canonize (treat as a sacred person)

ensky (exalt to the skies; lift to the skies or to heaven with praise)

crack up (rhapsodize about)

hymn (praise by singing a hymn)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

exaltation (the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god))

Sense 2

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 "exalt" 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

Sentence example:

The good news will exalt her

Derivation:

exaltation (a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Heighten or intensify

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

animate; enliven; exalt; inspire; invigorate

Context example:

These paintings exalt the imagination

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

excite; shake; shake up; stimulate; stir (stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "exalt"):

encourage (inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

exaltation (a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Raise in rank, character, or status

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

exalted the humble shoemaker to the rank of King's adviser

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

elevate; lift; raise (raise in rank or condition)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "exalt"):

deify (exalt to the position of a God)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

exaltation (the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god))

 Context examples 

She knew how trial and emotion would exalt and strengthen it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If you are not interested in pairing up romantically, you can use this exalted new moon for furthering business collaborations and partnerships.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He had never before been in contact with such exalted beings nor with so many of them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It has never been my weakness to exalt the flesh—far from it; but there is enough of the artist in me to appreciate its wonder.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But the world would soon be sensible of its usefulness; and he flattered himself, that a more noble, exalted thought never sprang in any other man’s head.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Great and exalted deeds are what he lives to perform.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He has grown grey in the service, is a gentleman, a favoured guest in the most exalted houses, and, above all, a man whose patriotism is beyond suspicion.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dear me, Mr. Malone, this is very—very exalted.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I doubted at first whether I should attempt the creation of a being like myself, or one of simpler organization; but my imagination was too much exalted by my first success to permit me to doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)