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admire
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verb (admir, es)
  1. (transitive) To regard with wonder and delight;
  2. (transitive) to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence;
  3. (transitive) to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape.
Translations:
  • Dutch: bewonderen, aanbidden
  • German: bewundern, verehren, hochschí¤tzen
Etymology: From Old French amirer, later from French admirer or Latin admirari, which comes from ad- + mirari "to wonder".

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