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1. Fill with sublime emotion
   "He was beatified by his phenomenal success"
   - exhilarate, tickle pink, inebriate, thrill, exalt
    
2. Make blessedly happy
    
3. Declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood
   "On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican"

Derived forms: beatifies, beatified, beatifying

See also: beatification

Type of: adjudge, declare, elate, hold, intoxicate, lift up, pick up, uplift

Encyclopedia: Beatify