Entry Word: exalt

Function: verb

Meaning: to enhance the status of <popular support and media hype have exalted Super Bowl Sunday to the level of a national holiday>

Synonyms aggrandize, dignify, ennoble, enshrine, glorify, magnify

Related Words boost, elevate, lift, promote, raise, upgrade, uplift; heighten, intensify; idealize, romanticize, sanitize, sugarcoat; canonize, deify; acclaim, extol (also extoll), honor, laud, praise

Near Antonyms belittle, decry, depreciate, detract, disparage, minimize

Antonyms abase, degrade, demean, humble, humiliate