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  • 11pay your respects — pay (your) respects to express your admiration or friendly feeling for someone. First I paid my respects to her parents and then went into to town to see some other people. Fans waited in the cold to pay their final respects to this fine athlete …

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  • 12pay respects — pay (your) respects to express your admiration or friendly feeling for someone. First I paid my respects to her parents and then went into to town to see some other people. Fans waited in the cold to pay their final respects to this fine athlete …

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  • 13as respects — phrasal : as regards : with regard to : as to perfectly tolerant except as respects his personal honor * * * as respects formal : about or concerning (something) : with respect to (something) …

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  • 14pay your respects — formal : to visit or speak with someone in a polite way as a sign of respect I went up to her after the meeting and paid my respects. We paid our last respects at his funeral. [=we went to his funeral as a sign of respect] • • • Main Entry: ↑pay …

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  • 15As respects — Respect Re*spect (r?*sp?kt ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Respected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Respecting}.] [L. respectare, v. intens. from respicere, respectum, to look back, respect; pref. re re + specere, spicere, to look, to view: cf. F. respecter. See… …

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  • 16pay one's respects — I make a polite visit to someone we went to pay our respects to the head lama II pay one s last respects see pay I …

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  • 17pay one's last respects — verb To visit the place where the remains of a dead person has been prepared for burial or cremation, either as a private act of remembrance or as a public display to others. Mr. Thompson performed the service, and I preached a sermon to a… …

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  • 18last respects — noun Final visit to a person nearing death, or to a person who has just died.. I went to pay my last respects to my aunt, who has cancer …

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  • 19in all respects — index in toto, purely (positively), wholly Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 20pay respects — index honor Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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