as in worshiping
excessive admiration of or devotion to a person
the worship of professional athletes who often turn out to be all too fallible
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as in to venerate
to offer honor or respect to (someone) as a divine power
the ancient Greeks worshipped many different gods
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as in to love
to feel passion, devotion, or tenderness for
the new father worships his baby daughter, and would do anything for her
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as in to adore
to love or admire too much
thought that some of her fellow senior citizens worshipped the old days too much, observing that they weren't all good
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Recent Examples of worship
Lynn Zovighian, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
She is affiliated with the Open Table Network, a Christian initiative that offers worship and support for LGBTQ people.
—Reuters, NBC news, 31 July 2025
Judy Berman, Time, 17 July 2025
The legislation also called for access to cultural sites, the use and possession of sacred objects, and the freedom to worship.
—Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 13 July 2025
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Noun
The Beirut explosion ripped through Lebanon's capital on Aug. 4, 2020, devastating homes, cultural sites, places of worship, and more.
—Lynn Zovighian, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
She is affiliated with the Open Table Network, a Christian initiative that offers worship and support for LGBTQ people.
—Reuters, NBC news, 31 July 2025
Verb
Which only, in the end, feels like more reason to worship the majesty of nature.
—Judy Berman, Time, 17 July 2025
The legislation also called for access to cultural sites, the use and possession of sacred objects, and the freedom to worship.
—Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 13 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for worship
Verb
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The church has received visitors and pilgrims for decades who venerate the saint's faith.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 July 2025
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Fans drive what art gets created, what products get made, who gets canceled, and who gets venerated.—
Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
10 July 2025
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Big-time print journalists like The New Yorker’s Patrick Radden Keefe were jumping into the world of narrative podcasts and loving it.—
Eric Benson,
Rolling Stone,
18 Aug. 2025
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Several of the Oscar-winning artist’s celeb peers loved on her in the comment section wishing her a happy birthday.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
18 Aug. 2025
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Ronaldo and Zidane have become so adored based upon, say, that goal against Compostela or that Champions League winner against Bayer Leverkusen — and various compilations — that there’s actually no rational analysis about their careers.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
16 Aug. 2025
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Smith particularly adores the 90-minute Bottled-in-Bond Warehouse Tour and Tasting at Heaven Hill and the one-hour Rickhouse Barrel Thieving at Bardstown Bourbon Company.—
Karla Walsh,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Aug. 2025
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The siblings' love and adoration of their dad is plain to see, as is the positive impact the Ring doorbell had on them.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 June 2025
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Each has done so to growing public interest and all that comes with it: adoration, criticism and faces on Panini stickers.—
Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
26 July 2025
Verb
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But Pi is precociously enlightened, his innocence not a problem to be rectified but a quality to be reverenced.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2025
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But Trump also reverenced the tough job Emmer has in keeping the GOP majority together, with which Emmer is all too familiar after the chaotic last two years.—
Emily Brooks,
The Hill,
3 Feb. 2025
Verb
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His career-high mark in Triple-A is 97, and the Mets don’t like to push their pitchers past the 90-pitch mark very often.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
16 Aug. 2025
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But Reid, a former tight ends coach with the Packers, likes to employ multiple tight-end sets.—
Jeff Fedotin,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Her final novel, The Blue Flower, about a romance in the early life of Novalis, was so revered by American critics that that National Book Critics Circle changed their rules for eligibility to include books published in the US.—
Jane Ciabattari
August 12,
Literary Hub,
12 Aug. 2025
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Former managers Dale Sveum and Rick Renteria weren’t blamed for all the losing in the rebuild years from 2012-14, and Joe Maddon was widely revered after making the NL Championship Series in his first year and ending the World Series title drought in his second.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Aug. 2025
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Majors' painfully awkward gym rat goes down a spectacularly bad path of protein shakes, steroids, rage issues, misplaced idolatry and macho posedowns in an effort to craft the perfect physique.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
4 July 2025
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Treating it as such is an insidious form of idolatry.—
Walt Shelton,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
Cite this Entry
“Worship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worship. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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