venerate
verb (used with object)
to regard or treat with reverence; revere.
venerated
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past participleof venerate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof venerate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
venerateverb (used with object)to regard or treat with reverence; revere.
Example Sentences
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Chavéz, whom the lawsuit called “a folk saint,” has been venerated across California for decades, with scores of schools, streets, parks and public buildings named in his honor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The production opening this fall is something of a novelty, in that it boasts a Broadway-viable cast but is being produced at La MaMa, the venerated off-off-Broadway theater in the East Village.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The clause survives as decoration: incorporated, venerated, and incapable of stopping a single seizure.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
With its nostalgically-painted, golden-maned horses, wistful French chanson music wafting as it turns, the Carrousel de St Pierre, by the venerated Sacre Coeur Church, is a firm favourite amongst tourists to Paris.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
This was always followed by Collins’s Ode on the Passions, wherein I particularly venerated Mr. Wopsle as Revenge throwing his blood-stained sword in thunder down, and taking the War-denouncing trumpet with a withering look.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
