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Antonyms for exalt
ɪgˈzɔltex·alt
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
exalt
To promote (Latin pro, forward, and moveo, move) is to cause to move forward toward some desired end or to raise to some higher position, rank, or dignity. We promote a person by advancing, elevating, or exalting him to a higher position or dignity. A person promotes a scheme or an enterprise which others have projected or begun, and which he encourages, forwards, furthers, pushes, or urges on, especially when he acts as the agent of the prime movers and supporters of the enterprise. One who excites a quarrel originates it; to promote a quarrel is strictly to foment and urge it on, the one who promotes keeping himself in the background. Compare ABET; QUICKEN.
See synonyms for ABASE; ALLAY.
Synonyms:
advance, aid, assist, elevate, encourage, excite, foment, forward, foster, further, help, prefer, promote, push, push on, raise, urge forward, urge on
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laud, extol, exalt, glorify, proclaimverb
praise, glorify, or honor
"extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking"
Synonyms:
enliven, laud, invigorate, proclaim, thrill, transfigure, predicate, tickle pink, animate, exclaim, promulgate, inspire, exhilarate, inebriate, glorify, spiritualize, extol, beatifyexhilarate, tickle pink, inebriate, thrill, exalt, beatifyverb
fill with sublime emotion
"The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success"
Synonyms:
enliven, shiver, hit it up, animate, invigorate, proclaim, shudder, thrill, throb, souse, tickle pink, soak, intoxicate, vibrate, laud, inspire, exhilarate, inebriate, glorify, tickle, extol, beatifyinspire, animate, invigorate, enliven, exaltverb
heighten or intensify
"These paintings exalt the imagination"
Synonyms:
revivify, tickle pink, animate, quicken, glorify, laud, extol, enliven, beatify, cheer, vivify, animize, urge on, instigate, root on, liven up, renovate, invigorate, exhilarate, urge, inspire, proclaim, thrill, prompt, revolutionize, recreate, reinvigorate, animise, barrack, repair, exhort, inhale, reanimate, pep up, breathe in, liven, revolutionise, revive, inebriateexaltverb
raise in rank, character, or status
"exalted the humble shoemaker to the rank of King's adviser"
Synonyms:
inspire, proclaim, laud, enliven, animate, beatify, extol, invigorate, exhilarate, inebriate, tickle pink, thrill, glorify
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
exaltverb
Synonyms:
elevate, dignify, ennoble, aggrandize, magnify, apotheosize, extol
How to use exalt in a sentence?
It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.
Common sense indicates that there is no coherence between the words that exalt the ceasefire and those that order to intensify the war.
Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
But he that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abused and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
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