Meaning & use
hallow
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To honor as holy or set apart as sacred.
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The old cemetery was once hallowed ground for the town's founders.
They hallowed the memory of the fallen soldiers with an annual ceremony.
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Most familiar today in the adjective form "hallowed" and in the word "Halloween," which literally means "hallowed evening."
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