MEANING
To speak or write in praise of someone, especially a person who has died.
Use it for
Funeral praise, idealized public memory, conflict with private truth.Expose the gap between a ceremonial portrait and a person's lived character.
Words that belong together
- eulogize the deceased
- eulogize a leader
- publicly eulogize
On the page
The minister eulogized a man his children had feared.
She refused to eulogize her mentor without mentioning his failures.
Newspapers eulogized the old library after the council voted to demolish it.
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Word forms
- Base
- eulogize / eulogizes
- Past tense
- eulogized
- Past participle
- eulogized
- Present participle
- eulogizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- eulogize / eulogizes
- Present continuous
- am/is/are eulogizing
- Present perfect
- have/has eulogized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been eulogizing
- Past
- eulogized
- Past continuous
- was/were eulogizing
- Past perfect
- had eulogized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been eulogizing
- Future
- will eulogize / eulogizes
- Future continuous
- will be eulogizing
- Future perfect
- will have eulogized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been eulogizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Emphasizes praise, unlike elegy or lament; can also praise living people or institutions. Verb: eulogize, eulogizes, eulogized, eulogized, eulogizing. British variant eulogise; derived noun eulogy.
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