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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

adulate

verb: flatter in an obsequious manner

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Adulate \Ad"u*late\, verb (used with an object) [L. adulatus, p. p. of adulari.] To flatter in a servile way. --Byron.
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