Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To regard with great or uncritical admiration or devotion. synonym: revere.
- transitive verb To worship as an idol.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To worship as an idol; make an idol of.
- Hence — To reverence immoderately; love or admire to adoration: as, to
idolize a hero; to idolize children. - To practise idol-worship.
- Also spelled
idolise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To practice idolatry.
- transitive verb To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to.
- transitive verb To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make an
idol of, or toworship as an idol. - verb To
adore excessively; torevere immoderately.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol
Etymologies
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Examples
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Will you please consider the notion that the market you so idolize is spun off the cliff?
Senate committee starts revising health care reform proposal 2009
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And because they want to put somebody down, and they kind of idolize men in a strange way because they failed even in that category.
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And on every magazine, we kind of idolize in a way their unions.
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To the parents of the children who 'idolize' Miley Cyrus: what exactly are they looking up to?
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I like the way Alex pointed out why a lot of people 'idolize' this guy.
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As an AIDS activist, it makes me sick to my stomach to see someone engage in this behavior, and then to somehow "idolize" him.
Daily News 2010
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He proposed a story about the kids following the program who "idolize" Pavan.
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It's just incredible that we fought over whether I 'idolize' a comic book character.
Planet Atheism 2009
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Straight guys, who don't actually have sex with other men, tend to have man crushes that are more about idolization than they are about sexual attraction (granted, I just happen to "idolize" Ryan Reynolds 'abs).
Pajiba 2008
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Like a lot of expat Mormon men, and I hate to admit it, I kind of idolize Mormon athletes.
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