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admirate

verb

Etymology

Back-formation from admiration. Equivalent to admire + -ate.

  1. derived from admīror
  2. derived from admirer
  3. inherited from admyren
  4. formed as admirate — “admire + -ate”

Definitions

  1. To admire.

    • I admirate Oprah's capital gains, but as far as her moral life, well, she's a fat whore!
    • We are very admirating of him in France.
    • In fact, Miles went into jazz-rock-funk by deeply participating to create this musical movement end of 60s. So, during this period, he mixed influnces^([sic]) from Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone in jazz and was admirating those musicians.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA