dignify
verb (used with object)
to confer honor or dignity upon; honor; ennoble.
have dignified
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present perfectof dignify.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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"We started here on July 25th, the very next day, to do all the work...so that all those people could have dignified burials."
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
Speaking to BBC World Service's Newsday, he said their plan looks at how to avoid waste, how to isolate and manage cases, and how to ensure people have "dignified funerals".
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
When people have dignified lives to reach and live for, aren’t they much less likely to see themselves fueled endlessly by a hopeless fight against?
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2024
He sharply accuses Iraqi authorities of failing to create conditions where people can have dignified lives.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
Our apartments—for I have dignified them by that name—were divided from the rest of the house by a thatched partition.
From In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston
