(obsolete, transitive) To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
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(transitive) To regard with wonder and delight.
He'd always been (very) much admired by his colleagues.
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(transitive) To look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence.
I'm not sayin' she's touched the Devil, now, but I'd admire to know what books she reads and why she hides them — she'll not answer me, y' see.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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