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单词 dignify
释义
dignify
verb[T]
uk
/ˈdɪɡ.nɪ.faɪ/us
/ˈdɪɡ.nə.faɪ/
tocausesomething to berespectedandconsideredimportant
使…受到重视；使…受到尊重
tocausesomething to berespectedandconsideredimportantwhen that is notdeserved:
抬举，抬高
I'm notevengoing to dignify thatstupidquestionwithananswer.这么愚蠢的问题我才懒得回答呢。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Showing respect and admiration
  • admiration
  • admire
  • admiring
  • admiringly
  • approvingly
  • fulsomely
  • fulsomeness
  • glorify
  • hallow
  • hero worship
  • homage
  • honour
  • payyourrespectsidiom
  • respectful
  • respectfully
  • retire
  • retire a numberidiom
  • revere
  • reverence
  • reverent
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(Definition ofdignifyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdignify

dignify
Local populations no longer ascribed to them any dignifying quality, and increasingly demanded from them a total participation in the war effort.
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In this passage the machine, like the human laborer, is exceptionally complex and dignified for its simple purposes, its simple - and therefore innocuous and innocent - tasks.
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At a minimum, liberalism should not give these values priority but should see policy as the means to enhance democracy through equitable resource allocation and dignified living conditions.
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Of all natural sciences, we only appreciated anatomy, the science of human being, and especially the anatomy of the brain, as dignified enough for the attention of lyubomudry.
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As such it dignified the authors and their texts; it also contributed to placing them, like the authors of antiquity, in the past rather than in the present.
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Intellectual distinction could console a nation whose military fortunes were sagging, dignifying the savant with a patriotic role that conveniently coincided with his own personal quest for fame.
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Participation itself dignifies people if they are doing something about their own lives.
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In fact, it is dignifying it somewhat to call it a long-term economic strategy.
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Therefore, by taking it at that rational level, it is dignifying what is put before us.
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I think that would be dignifying it by too great a name.
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All of these are definite undertakings which will have the effect dignifying the countryside.
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Being able to respond to the vulnerability of patients in a way that provides dignifying care is a key concept in the field.
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Certainly syndicalist internationalists found unfathomable a mentality that welcomed war, minimised its potential length or horrors, or sought todignifyit.
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They repor t no manifestos, formal petitions, or even the crudest chants and rarelydignifycrowds with more than a few lines of their attention.
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The strategy thus far has been todignifywork as creativity aimed at universal social benefit.
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