say it: bee-AT-uh-fahy
beatify is a verb meaning "fill with sublime emotion". It carries 3 recorded senses.
fill with sublime emotion
“The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies”
“He was inebriated by his phenomenal success”
make blessedly happy
declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood
“On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for beatify come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.