adulate

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
adulate
    v 1: flatter in an obsequious manner
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Adulate \Ad"u*late\, v. t. [L. adulatus, p. p. of adulari.]
   To flatter in a servile way. --Byron.
   [1913 Webster]
    

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