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HALLOW
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they hallow ... he / she / it hallows
Past simple: hallowed
Past participle: hallowed
-ing form: hallowing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Render holy by means of religious rites
Synonyms:
bless; consecrate; hallow; sanctify
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "hallow" is one way to...):
declare (state emphatically and authoritatively)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hallow"):
reconsecrate (consecrate anew, as after a desecration)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
