admirate

Back-formation from admiration. Equivalent to admire +‎ -ate.

admirate (third-person singular simple present admirates, present participle admirating, simple past and past participle admirated)

1. (non-native speakers' English) To admire.
   • 2000 February 14, schles...@my-deja.com, “Dr. Laura and Oprah”, in alt.radio.talk.dr-laura‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 21 April 2022:

     I admirate Oprah's capital gains, but as far as her moral life, well, she's a fat whore!

   • 2000 July 24, Hugette.Lespine, “Croats, Serbs and Muslims”, in alt.fifty-plus.friends‎^[2] (Usenet), retrieved 21 April 2022:

     We are very admirating of him in France.

   • 2004 April 13, dom's, “What's on the cd player”, in alt.music.led-zeppelin‎^[3] (Usenet), retrieved 21 April 2022:

     In fact, Miles went into jazz-rock-funk by deeply participating to create this musical movement end of 60s. So, during this period, he mixed influnces^[sic] from Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone in jazz and was admirating those musicians.

   • 2010 June 21, Merciadri Luca, “Animated trees”, in comp.text.tex‎^[4] (Usenet), retrieved 21 April 2022:

     Yes, but that means that Robin's link is incorrect!
     (But that does not prevent me from admirating Robin's actions for TeX stuff.)

• IPA^(key): /admiˈrate/

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• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: ad‧mi‧ra‧te

admirate

1. present adverbial passive participle of admiri

admīrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of admīrātus

admirate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of admirar combined with te