worship
/ˈwɝ.ʃɪp/ verb C2- To reverence (a deity, etc.) with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honour of.
- To honour with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
- To participate in religious ceremonies.
- To touch, fondle, or kiss in an intensely sensual way.
He/she/it worships · Past worshiped · Past participle worshiped · -ing form worshiping
Verb forms
- Base form
- worship
- He/she/it
- worships
- Past
- worshiped
- Past participle
- worshiped
- -ing form
- worshiping
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Anne walked through it on her way to school with reverent steps and worshiping eyes, as if she trod on holy ground.
I remember that as I picked them up, I observed the title of one of them, The Origin of Tree Worship, and it struck me that the fellow must be some poor bibliophile, who, either as a trade or as a hobby, was a collector of obscure volumes.
Never had Flora, the fresh and smiling goddess of gardeners, been honored with a purer or more scrupulous worship than that which was paid to her in this little enclosure.
Morrel swore to love him with all his soul; and at that moment he could safely promise to do so, for he felt as though it were not enough to love him merely as a friend or even as a father, he worshiped him as a god.
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