revere

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishreverere‧vere /rɪˈvɪə $ -ˈvɪr/ verb [transitive usually passive] formalADMIRE to respect and admire someone or something very muchbe revered as something He is revered as a national hero.Grammar Revere is usually passive.► see thesaurus at admire→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusrevere• Jones is much revered as the king of country, and his fans deserve the whole picture.• Collins was revered by his fellow countrymen.• In big-band circles Bailey is revered for his section leading ability, but his solo improvising has been vastly underrated.• Whether we invoke him, or revere him, or simply live in fear of him, this deity is always dangerous.• This semester they imitate Faulkner, reject Beckett, revere Rich.• They soon recognized the humble status of these priests and so adopted the more revered robes of the literati.• His name is revered still in Ayrshire.• Most of us revere the Bible, but few of us read it regularly.• What happened to our thinking about snakes that we changed from revering them as sacred to fearing them as evil?be revered as something• Naturally the baobab is revered as the ancestor among trees.• Romulus and Remus were revered as the pair from whom the foundation of Rome derived.Origin revere (1600-1700) Latin revereri, from vereri “to fear, respect”

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Verb table

revere

Simple Form
Present
I, you, we, they	revere
he, she, it	reveres
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Past
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	revered
Present perfect
I, you, we, they	have revered
he, she, it	has revered
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had revered
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will revere
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have revered
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Continuous Form
Present
I	am revering
he, she, it	is revering
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you, we, they	are revering
Past
I, he, she, it	was revering
you, we, they	were revering
Present perfect
I, you, we, they	have been revering
he, she, it	has been revering
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been revering
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be revering
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been revering
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