Synonyms of the word

glorify

• v. (transitive) To exalt, or give glory or praise to (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To make (something) appear to be more glorious than it is; regard something or someone excellent…
• v. (transitive) To worship or extol.

aggrandise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of aggrandize.

aggrandize

• v. (transitive) To make great; to enlarge; to increase.
• v. (transitive) To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; applied to persons, countries,…
• v. (transitive) To make appear great or greater; to exalt.
• v. (intransitive) To increase or become great.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

dramatise

• v. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of dramatize.

dramatize

• v. To adapt a literary work so that it can be performed in the theatre, or on radio or television.
• v. To present something in a dramatic or melodramatic manner.

embellish

• v. To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
• v. To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, to embroider.

embroider

• v. To stitch a decorative design on fabric with needle and thread of various colours.
• v. (figuratively) To add imaginary detail to a narrative to make it more interesting or acceptable.

exalt

• v. (transitive) To honor; to hold in high esteem.
• v. (transitive) To raise in rank, status etc., to elevate.

extol

• v. To praise; to make high.

lard

• n. Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
• n. (obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
• v. (cooking) to stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.
• v. to smear with fat or lard.
• v. to garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing.
• v. To fatten; to enrich.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To grow fat.
• v. To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.

laud

• n. Praise or glorification.
• n. Hymn of praise.
• n. (in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to praise, to glorify.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

pad

• n. A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
• n. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
• n. A soft, or small, cushion.
• n. A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
• n. The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
• n. Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
• n. A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
• n. A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
• n. A sanitary napkin.
• n. (US) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
• n. (cricket) A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.
• n. A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing…
• n. A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
• n. A keypad.
• n. A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
• n. An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket one end: "trip cord".
• n. The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
• n. A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
• n. (US, slang) A bed.
• n. (colloquial) A place of residence.
• n. (Britain, slang) A prison cell.
• n. (cryptography) A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
• n. A mousepad.
• n. (electronics) The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
• n. (nautical) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
• v. (transitive) To stuff.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a pad or padding.
• v. (transitive) To fill or lengthen (a story, one's importance, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
• n. (Britain, dialectal) A toad.
• n. (Britain, dialectal, Australia, Ireland) A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road…
• n. An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad.
• n. The act of highway robbery.
• n. (Britain, dialectal) A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
• v. (transitive) To travel along (a road, path etc.).
• v. (intransitive) To travel on foot.
• v. (intransitive) To wear a path by walking.
• v. (intransitive) To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To practise highway robbery.
• interj. Indicating a soft flat sound, as of bare footsteps.
• n. The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.

praise

• n. commendation; favourable representation in words.
• n. worship.
• v. To give praise to.

proclaim

• v. To excitedly, verbosely and candidly describe.
• v. To announce or declare.

spiritualize

• v. To make spiritual; to invoke spirituality.
• v. To refine intellectually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual…
• v. To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; opposed to literalize.
• v. (chemistry, obsolete) To extract spirit.
• v. (chemistry, obsolete) To convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.

transfigure

• v. To transform the outward appearance of something; to convert into a different form, state or substance.
• v. To glorify or exalt something or someone.