HALLOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hallow mean? 

• HALLOW (verb)
  The verb HALLOW has 1 sense:

1. render holy by means of religious rites

  Familiarity information: HALLOW used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HALLOW (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hallow    ... he / she / it hallows   
Past simple: hallowed   
Past participle: hallowed   
-ing form: hallowing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Render holy by means of religious rites

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

bless; consecrate; hallow; sanctify

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

declare (state emphatically and authoritatively)

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

reconsecrate (consecrate anew, as after a desecration)

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

Upon which, Janet came running up the stairs as if the house were in flames, darted out on a little piece of green in front, and warned off two saddle-donkeys, lady-ridden, that had presumed to set hoof upon it; while my aunt, rushing out of the house, seized the bridle of a third animal laden with a bestriding child, turned him, led him forth from those sacred precincts, and boxed the ears of the unlucky urchin in attendance who had dared to profane that hallowed ground.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)