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To dignify something — or someone — is to make it seem better, grander, or more important than it really is, especially by the word you choose. Teachers and newspapers often use it with a raised : if you dignify a silly with an answer, you have given it a status it did not earn. So the verb is frequently ironic, which is a different feeling from (that one is praise). You might say a grand name dignifies what was only a short chat. It is not a warm word for “make someone feel valued”; it is about labels and status.
抬舉、把…說得比較體面（多半帶點諷刺）
組成From Old French dignifier, from Late Latin dignificare: dignus (“worthy”) + facere (“to make”). Same worthy-root as deign.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
dignifyverb/ˈdɪɡnɪfaɪ/
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To invest with dignity or honour.
- Your worth will dignify our feast.
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To give distinction to.
- Or, when more deeply moved, he would exclaim-- "As noble thoughts the inward being grace, So noble whiskers dignify the face."
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To exalt in rank.
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To treat as worthy or acceptable; to indulge or condone by acknowledging.
- I will not dignify that comment with a response.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。