"heroify" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From hero + -ify.",
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      "form": "heroifies",
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    {
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "text": "In writing about important historical figures, one must be careful not to heroify them.",
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          "ref": "1886, Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of the Northwest Coast:",
          "text": "What were the far-off natives of the Rocky Mountains doing that this restless, reckless, blood-thirsty, and cruel Frenchman should be permitted to kill them? [...] The vilest agents were permitted to employ the vilest means; and this French butcher finds among our first writers a man to heroify him and to set up his dastardly deeds as models for the young.",
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        "To raise someone to the status of a hero by overlooking the person's flaws."
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          "hero",
          "hero"
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "heroification"
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  "word": "heroify"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From hero + -ify.",
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      "form": "heroifies",
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        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "heroifying",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "heroified",
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