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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
idolize
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ As a child, Ted idolized his father.
▪ Monroe was idolized by movie fans all over the world.
▪ Susan idolizes her mother.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And he helped her by showing that she had married a man of her own color who was idolized by all.
▪ But no, he idolized the girl from the start.
▪ Denied parents for so much of the year, Angel had idolized Pedro.
▪ He is both idolized and despised within the Union movement.
▪ In the late seventies, when Ian was starting out as a pro, he idolized Watson.
▪ It was a pleasure to flog her, to defend her, to scrutinize, criticize and idolize her.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Idolize

Idolize \I"dol*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Idolized; p. pr. & vb. n. Idolizing.]

  1. To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; as, to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt.

  2. To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration; as, to idolize gold, children, a hero.

Idolize

Idolize \I"dol*ize\, v. i. To practice idolatry. [R.]

To idolize after the manner of Egypt.
--Fairbairn.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
idolize

1590s, from idol + -ize. Related: Idolized; idolizing.

Wiktionary
idolize

vb. 1 To make an idol of, or to worship as an idol. 2 To adore excessively; to revere immoderately.

WordNet
idolize

v. love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; "Many teenagers idolized the Beatles" [syn: idolise, worship, hero-worship, revere]

Usage examples of "idolize".

As in Dari, the common people tended to idolize Fornis for her beauty and audacity.

She would have been perfect for Yossarian, a debauched, coarse, vulgar, amoral, appetizing slattern whom he had longed for and idolized for months.

The next morning, as I wished to keep calm, I only let her sit down on my bed, and the conversation I had with her proved without the shadow of a doubt that her parents had every reason to idolize her, and that the easy freedom of her mind as well as of her behaviour with me was entirely owing to her innocence and to her purity.

His poor mother who idolized him had given him everything she had, even her own clothes, and I expected him to plague me again for some loan or security, but I was firmly resolved on refusing.

I idolized the genius of Ariosto, and considered him a far better fortune-teller than Virgil.

She hugged him as she always had from the time she was a small child who idolized him.

Well, then, this Loriot, who sold corn to those butchers, has never had but one passion, they say--he idolizes his daughters.

She used to follow him around, idolizing the very ground he walked on, and Haun in turn had treated Mei with a rare softness reserved for no one else.

But after several weeks at Passy, living together in close quarters, accompanying Franklin on his social rounds, observing the daily routine and how things were being run, Adams began to see another man than the idolized sage who, if not the villain portrayed by Lee and Izard, nonetheless gave Adams pause.

Prince Heritor of Cathra, the richest and most powerful of the island realms, Conrig idolized his remote ancestor Emperor Bazekoy, the towering personality who first vanquished the great Continental nations of Foraile, Andradh, and Stippen, then set out to wrest control of Blenholme from the Salka and the other nonhuman monsters who had inhabited the place since the dawn of time.

The next morning, as I wished to keep calm, I only let her sit down on my bed, and the conversation I had with her proved without the shadow of a doubt that her parents had every reason to idolize her, and that the easy freedom of her mind as well as of her behaviour with me was entirely owing to her innocence and to her purity.

I am sure that anyone who remembers how he himself idolized the great ballplayers of his youth, will not even need the evidence in order to imagine just how Charles Curtis Flood might misuse and mislead these boys for his own subversive ends.

I idolized the genius of Ariosto, and considered him a far better fortune-teller than Virgil.

The gentleman of whom, after her lover, she took most notice, was the Count de la Tour d'Auvergne, a nobleman of an old family, who idolized her, and, not being rich enough to possess her entirely, had to be content with what she gave him.

If, therefore, even Jonson felt himself forced to clear himself of extravagance and absurdity in his appreciation of Shakespear, there must have been many people about who idolized Shakespear as American ladies idolize Paderewski, and who carried Bardolatry, even in the Bard's own time, to an extent that threatened to make his reasonable admirers ridiculous.