Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: worshipped
IPA transcription: [w'ɝʃəpt]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: adored, idolized, idolised, worshipped(a)
    Meaning: regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god); "adored grandchildren"; "an idolized wife"
Usage examples
  • They worshipped the sun, moon, and planets.
  • They brought her up and they just worshipped her.
  • Their fathers had worshipped in the cold, and their sons might.
  • I worshipped my mother, but I rarely kissed her or expressed my love for her in words.
  • We have worshipped Death, the relentless goddess of mercy, under many different names.
  • His Henrietta Temple, the Henrietta Temple whom he adored, and by whom he had been worshipped!
  • This god was also worshipped by the military aristocracy of Mitanni, which held sway for a period over Assyria.
  • Even in the temple at Jerusalem the Babylonians' gods, the host of heaven, were worshipped by certain of the Hebrews.
  • And I was ready to respond, Armand; I would have allowed myself to be worshipped, and given infinite tenderness in return. . . ."
  • We have worshipped with the lily, we have meditated with the lotus, we have charged in battle array with the rose and the chrysanthemum.