Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make an angel of; raise to the state of an angel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To raise to the state of an angel; to render angelic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To raise to the state of an
angel ; to renderangelic .
Etymologies
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angel + -ize
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Examples
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The corporate press, two weeks after the assassination of Oscar Grant III, made a furtive. one-day attempt the "angelize" the killer, on the day following his arrest, i.e.: The KKKrronicle's puff piece on Mehserle depicted as a "Gentle Giant" since childhood.
Indybay newswire 2009
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