Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To worship idols; practise idolatry.
  • To adore or worship idolatrously; make an idol of; idolize.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To worship idols; to pay idolatrous worship.
  • transitive verb To make in idol of; to idolize.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To make an idol of; to idolize.

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Examples

  • It certainly will not listen very attentively to those conservatives who idolatrize Obama and collaborate in heralding his arrival ....

    Anchor Rising 2008

  • To invest the Bible with the qualities of inerrancy and infallibility is to idolatrize it, to transform it into a false god. "

    Biblical Recorder 2010

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