belaud

From be- +‎ laud.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɪˈlɔːd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bɪˈlɔd/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /bɪˈlɑd/
• Rhymes: -ɔːd

belaud (third-person singular simple present belauds, present participle belauding, simple past and past participle belauded)

1. (transitive, rare) To load with praise; praise greatly; extol.
   • 1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major:

     Not, I am bound to say, that Lindsay was belauding his own prowess. But, what was worse, he appeared a centre of enormous interest to the men around him.

• belauded

• ablude