idolize:

1. To love or admire enthusiastically, excessively, with great awe or blind devotion. See love for synonyms.

2. To revere ; to regard with great awe and reverence; to worship (as a god).
SYNONYMS: adore ; adulate ; apotheosize; carry-a-torch for; cherish ; dig ; dote on ; exalt; glorify; groove-on ; hero-worship; hold-dear ; idealize; idolatrize; lionize ; look up to; only-have-eyes-for ; put on a pedestal; relish; revel in; revere ; reverence; treasure ; venerate ; worship .

3. To make an idol of; to worship as an idol ; to practice idolatry.

See Also: canonize

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