eulogize
verb1
To praise, celebrate or pay homage to (someone), especially in an eloquent formal eulogy.
- Brill's brother Michael also eulogized David's battle for justice in "defending the rights of men, women and children."1979 December 1, Political Analyst David Brill Dies, “Pat M. Kuras”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 19, page 6:
- Both did say a few words, both informally eulogizing my father, though neither admitted that was what they were doing.1993, Octavia Butler, chapter 12, in Parable of the Sower:
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- Where did I go wrong? Why is Elton John eulogizing me in song?2005, J. G. Thirlwell, “Aladdin Reverse”, in Love, performed by Foetus:
- Derived terms
- eulogization, uneulogized
- Related terms
- eulogist, eulogistic, eulogizer