eulogize
Honor the departed
To eulogize is to praise someone highly, especially in a formal speech honoring a person who has died.
The eulogy at a funeral is the most familiar context: She was asked to eulogize her grandfather at the service.
The word extends to lavish praise of the living, sometimes with an ironic edge suggesting the praise is excessive or premature.
Praise with enthusiasm
- laudTo voice high esteem
- acclaimEnthusiastic public approval
- commendExpress approval of
- glorifyPraise to excess
honor · exalt · applaud · venerate · adulate · panegyrize · compliment · celebrate
Notice of someone's passing
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- funeralService honoring the dead
- wakePath left in water
- gravesideBeside a burial plot
interment · casket · mourner · bereaved · condolences · remembrance · ceremony · oration
Formal public speech
- elegyPoem lamenting the departed
- tributeOffering of respect
- addressSpeak to formally
- monologueUninterrupted solo address
deliver · proclaim · soliloquy · sermon · oratory · declaim · speechify · recite
Honor through lasting tribute
- honorHigh regard, moral dignity
- rememberRetain in mind
- dedicateSet apart formally
- enshrinePreserve as sacred
monument · plaque · legacy · retrospect · anniversary · heritage · chronicle · testimonial
extol
Praise with enthusiasm
glorify · honor · exalt · applaud · venerate · adulate · panegyrize · compliment · celebrate · tribute
obituary
Notice of someone's passing
graveside · interment · casket · mourner · bereaved · condolences · remembrance · ceremony · oration · tribute
oration
Formal public speech
monologue · deliver · proclaim · soliloquy · sermon · oratory · declaim · speechify · recite · pronounce
memorialize
Honor through lasting tribute
enshrine · monument · plaque · legacy · retrospect · anniversary · heritage · chronicle · testimonial · homage
grieve
Feel sorrow over loss
loss · condole · console · sympathy · anguish · heartache · lamentation · elegize · requiem · dirge
- funeral ritesfuneral, bury, burial, funeral mass, burial rites
- venerationvenerate, revere, reverence, glorify, exalt
- writing verbsnarrate, describe, recount, chronicle, transcribe
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