MEANING
To regard someone or something with profound respect, often mixed with awe, gratitude, or devotion.
Use it for
Treat someone or something with deep respect or awe.Show a character’s deep regard for a person, object, or inherited custom.
Words that belong together
- revere a leader
- revere the dead
- revere a tradition
On the page
The villagers revered the bell that had survived the flood.
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Opposite meanings
Word forms
- Base
- revere
- Past tense
- revered
- Past participle
- revered
- Present participle
- revering
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- revere
- Present continuous
- am/is/are revering
- Present perfect
- have/has revered
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been revering
- Past
- revered
- Past continuous
- was/were revering
- Past perfect
- had revered
- Past perfect continuous
- had been revering
- Future
- will revere
- Future continuous
- will be revering
- Future perfect
- will have revered
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been revering
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
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Usage notes
Usually takes a person, institution, object, or tradition as its object; it is stronger and more formal than respect. Third-person singular: reveres.
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