EXALT Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

exalt

verb

ig-ˈzȯlt

as in to elevate

to assign a high status or value to popular support and media hype have exalted Super Bowl Sunday to the level of a national holiday

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as in to celebrate

to proclaim the glory of monstrous, gaudy gambling palaces that seem to exalt the very notion of excess

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Recent Examples of exalt By the 1930s and throughout the 1940s, Benton became associated with Regionalism—among its devotees, Grant Wood—which rejected abstract expressionism and exalted realist representations of rural America. —

Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 23 Dec. 2024 The story of Combs’s rise and fall exposes the many fractures in a legacy that pop culture was always eager to exalt. —

Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 31 Oct. 2024 Whatever happened to exalting the Thinker over the armored knight? —

Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 3 Nov. 2024 Still, others found these movies critical of science while also exalting it. —

Salama Udaipurwala, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for exalt

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An Olympic gold medal, Women’s Open Championship win at St. Andrews and entry into the LPGA’s Hall of Fame elevated Ko to dizzying heights in the women’s game.

— Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2025
The victory also elevated his career earnings total to more than $7 million, not too shabby for a horse that sold at auction for $40,000 as a 2-year-old.

— Clark Spencer, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025