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puts on a pedestal

puts on a pedestal is the third-person singular simple present indicative of put on a pedestal.

Meaning of put on a pedestal

Verb

put on a pedestal (third-person singular simple present puts on a pedestal, present participle putting on a pedestal, simple past and past participle put on a pedestal)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To hold in very high esteem, especially to an exaggerated degree.
    • A group of young literary men—and one or two women—put him on a pedestal and kissed the earth before it.1905, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, “The Bell in the Fog”, in The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories

Questions about puts on a pedestal

What is puts on a pedestal the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Puts on a pedestal is the third-person singular simple present indicative of put on a pedestal.

Words near puts on a pedestal in the dictionary

  1. puts new wine in old bottles
  2. puts off
  3. puts on
  4. puts on a brave face
  5. puts on a clinic
  6. puts on a pedestal
  7. puts on airs
  8. puts on frills
  9. puts on one's dancing shoes
  10. puts on one's own oxygen mask first
  11. puts on one's oxygen mask first

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