Adulate

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  • transitive verb. To praise or admire excessively; fawn on.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To show feigned devotion to; flatter servilely.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To flatter in a servile way.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To flatter effusively
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  • verb. flatter in an obsequious manner
    • Word Usage
    "Decades later, while swaths of America adulate black sports stars, TV talk queens, and even the president, the question lingers whether and how badly the GOP wants to racially diversify, while maintaining its conservative base."
    Form
    adulation  adulator  adulatory  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    blandish  flatter  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    flagellate  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    flatte  
    verb-form
    adulated  adulates  adulating  
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