admire

  1. Verb.  (obsolete, transitive) To be amazed at.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) To regard with wonder and delight.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence;.
  4. Verb.  (transitive) to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape.

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