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beatify

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: beatify

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v
make blessedly happy
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v
declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: beatify
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v make blessedly happy

Type of:
elate, intoxicate, lift up, pick up, uplift
fill with high spirits; fill with optimism

v fill with sublime emotion

Synonyms:
exalt, exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink
Type of:
elate, intoxicate, lift up, pick up, uplift
fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
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v declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood

“On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican”
Type of:
adjudge, declare, hold
declare to be
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