Synonyms of the word

beatify

• v. (transitive) To make blissful.
• v. (transitive) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
• v. (transitive, Roman Catholicism) To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a…

adjudge

• v. To declare to be.
• v. To deem or determine to be.
• v. To award judicially; to assign.

declare

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make clear, explain, interpret.
• v. (intransitive) To make a declaration.
• v. (transitive) To announce one’s support, choice, opinion, etc.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) For the captain of the batting side to announce the innings complete even though…
• v. (transitive) To announce something formally or officially.
• v. (intransitive, politics) For a constituency in an election to officially announce the result.
• v. (transitive) To affirm or state something emphatically.
• v. (transitive) To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income,…
• v. (transitive) To make outstanding debts, e.g. taxes, payable.
• v. (transitive, programming) To explicitly include (a variable) as part of a list of variables, often providing…

elate

• v. (transitive) To make joyful or proud.
• v. (transitive) To lift up; raise; elevate.
• adj. elated; exultant.
• adj. (obsolete) Lifted up; raised; elevated.

exalt

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

exhilarate

• v. (transitive) To cheer, to cheer up, to gladden, to make happy.
• v. (transitive) To excite, to thrill.

hold

• adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To contain or store.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
• v. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
• v. To take place, to occur.
• v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
• v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
• n. A grasp or grip.
• n. A place where animals are held for safety.
• n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
• n. Something reserved or kept.
• n. Power over someone or something.
• n. The ability to persist.
• n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
• n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
• n. (exercise (sport)) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time.
• n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
• n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
• n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
• n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
• n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
• n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
• n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when…
• n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).

inebriate

• n. A person who is intoxicated, especially one who is habitually drunk.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be drunk; to intoxicate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate, elate or stupefy as if by spirituous…
• v. (intransitive) To become drunk.
• adj. intoxicated; drunk.

intoxicate

• v. To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol.
• adj. (obsolete) Intoxicated.
• adj. (obsolete) Overexcited, as with joy or grief.

thrill

• v. (ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify;…
• v. (ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
• v. (obsolete) To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
• v. (obsolete) To hurl; to throw; to cast.
• n. A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion.
• n. A cause of sudden excitement; a kick.
• n. (medicine) A slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.
• n. A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.

uplift

• v. To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional…
• v. (aviation, travel) to be accepted for carriage on a flight.
• n. The act or result of being uplifted.
• n. (geology) A tectonic upheaval, especially one that takes place in the process of mountain building.
• n. (colloquial) A brassiere that raises the breasts.