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(v)
To treat with affection, care, and tenderness; to nurture or protect with care.
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(transitive) To flatter effusively.
(n)
(uncountable) A deep caring for the existence of another.
(adj)
Being the object of love.
To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.
(transitive) To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
(transitive) To regard with wonder and delight.
The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object.
(transitive) To treat with great respect and deference.
Veneration; profound awe and respect, normally in a sacred context.
(transitive) To regard someone or something with great awe or devotion.
To adore excessively; to revere immoderately.
Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad.
Very excited or enthusiastic.
found pleasant or attractive; often used as a combining form
(literally, countable and uncountable) A collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc.
To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence.
An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
(intransitive, stative, usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.
(transitive) To honor; to hold in high esteem; to praise or worship.
(transitive) To exalt, or give glory or praise to (something or someone).
(transitive) To praise; to make high.
(uncountable) an attitude of consideration or high regard
Joy; pleasure.
(uncountable) Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful).
The imagination.
Synonym of adore.
love
(transitive) To treat as worthy of worship; to regard as a deity.
(non-native speakers' English) To admire.
(rare, archaic) To admire, wonder.
(transitive) To make an idol of; to idolize.
Commendation; favourable representation in words.
(uncountable) A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
(transitive) To show affection to.
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of idolize. [To make an idol of, or to worship as an idol.]
(intransitive, informal) To demonstrate affection (on somebody).
(informal, by extension of Moon) Any natural satellite of a planet.
(transitive, stative, obsolete) To love.
To invoke divine favor upon.
Alternative form of idolatrize. [(transitive) To make an idol of; to idolize.]
(transitive) to kneel in front of someone or something, especially in order to worship or supplicate
Having worth, merit, or value.
(obsolete) To devote.
(chiefly imperative) To wait a moment.
(transitive) To value highly; to care about greatly.
A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug.
(religion) To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to a deity or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.
(personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink).
(transitive) To treat (a person) as if they were important, or a celebrity.
(obsolete) To love in return.
(transitive) To extol, praise.
(transitive) To commit (oneself) to a particular course of thought or action.
A song of praise or worship, especially a religious one.
(ambitransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm.
(countable, uncountable) A demonstration of respect, as towards a person after his or her retirement or death.
(transitive) To beseech; to supplicate; to implore.
To like; to hold in high esteem; to look upon favourably.
(idiomatic) to show honor or respect to; to honor; to do, make or pay obeisance to
(transitive) To praise or acclaim.
(transitive) To make or hold dear; endear.
(obsolete, transitive) To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify.
(rare) To acclaim.
A touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.
(idiomatic, transitive) To show respect or admiration for (someone); to see (someone) as a role model.
To enrapture.
To subserviently adhere to (a tradition, etc.).
A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
A desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen.
(transitive) To try for, to attempt to reach.
To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
(transitive) To become fond of something or someone.
(transitive) To influence or alter.
(intransitive) To be very happy, be delighted, exult; to feel joy.
(transitive) To become fond of someone or something.
(colloquial) To deal with, to be focused on.
To give praise to God with a doxology
(transitive, idiomatic) To have a very high opinion of; to have a strong attachment to or affection for; to think highly / a lot of.
(uncountable) The feeling of desiring; an eager longing for something.
Synonym of take a shine to (“to become fond of something”).
(transitive or intransitive) To engage in joyful activity in appreciation of an event.
(chiefly uncountable) The act of observing; perception.
(transitive) To exalt; to glorify.
(transitive) To look at or see (someone or something), especially appreciatively; to descry, to look upon.
(transitive, rare) To make lovely.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
Used in a phrasal verb: abide by (“to accept and act in accordance with”).
To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
(transitive) To make the subject of (often sexual) obsession.
Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.
(ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
To choose or elect, especially to promote someone to higher office before they have served in a lower capacity.
(mostly in the passive, followed by "of" or "with") To cause to be in love.
(transitive) To make (something) larger or more important.
Glorification or praise.