admire
/ədˈmaɪɹ/ verb A2- To regard with wonder and delight.
- To look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence.
- To estimate or value highly; to hold in high esteem. · to admire a person of high moral worth· to admire a landscape
He/she/it admires · Past admired · Past participle admired · -ing form admiring
Verb forms
- Base form
- admire
- He/she/it
- admires
- Past
- admired
- Past participle
- admired
- -ing form
- admiring
From the library
I am more likely to give help than to ask it”--Bagheera stretched out one paw and admired the steel-blue, ripping-chisel talons at the end of it--“still I should like to know.”
All the Jungle-People admire us for our skill and our cunning.
They found him stretched out on a warm ledge in the afternoon sun, admiring his beautiful new coat, for he had been in retirement for the last ten days changing his skin, and now he was very splendid--darting his big blunt-nosed head along the ground, and twisting the thirty feet of his body into fantastic knots and curves, and licking his lips as he thought of his dinner to come.
Anne expanded like a flower under this wholesome influence and carried home to the admiring Matthew and the critical Marilla glowing accounts of schoolwork and aims.
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