Idolize
['aɪdəlaɪz]
Definition
(verb.) love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; 'Many teenagers idolized the Beatles'.
Checker: Sherman--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; as, to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt.
(v. t.) To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration; as, to idolize gold, children, a hero.
(v. i.) To practice idolatry.
Checker: Rhonda
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Deify.[2]. Adore, reverence or love excessively.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Worship, adore, venerate
ANT:Loathe, execrate, abominate
Editor: Orville
Unserious Contents or Definition
To make useless.
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Examples
- There is no doubt that she perfectly idolized him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- True it is that his soldiers, who, save for a few rare melodramatic encounters, saw nothing of him, idolized their Little Corporal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The people idolized him; princes lavished uncounted treasures upon him. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I told her that I idolized and worshipped her. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I have tried again and again to point out the iconoclasm that is constantly necessary to avoid the distraction that comes of idolizing our own methods of thought. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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