"idolize" meaning in English

See idolize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈaɪdəlaɪz/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-idolize.wav Forms: idolizes [present, singular, third-person], idolizing [participle, present], idolized [participle, past], idolized [past]
Etymology: From idol + -ize. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|idol|ize}} idol + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} idolize (third-person singular simple present idolizes, present participle idolizing, simple past and past participle idolized)
  1. To make an idol of, or to worship as an idol. Translations (to make an idol of): أَلَه (ʔalah) (Arabic), прекланям се (preklanjam se) (Bulgarian), боготворя (bogotvorja) (Bulgarian), idolatrar (Catalan), idolisere (Danish), verafgoden (Dutch), ihannoida (Finnish), jumaloida (Finnish), palvoa (Finnish), idolâtrer (French), bálványoz (Hungarian), idolatrare (Italian), ubóstwiać [imperfective] (Polish), ubóstwić [perfective] (Polish), obožavati (Serbo-Croatian), idolatrar (Spanish), idolisera (Swedish), idolleştirmek (Turkish), ilahlaştırmak (Turkish), tanrılaştırmak (Turkish), putlaştırmak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-idolize-en-verb-CIdUWZnW Disambiguation of 'to make an idol of': 99 1
  2. To adore excessively; to revere immoderately. Translations (to adore excessively): обожавам (obožavam) (Bulgarian), idolatrar (Catalan), ihannoida (Finnish), jumaloida (Finnish), palvoa (Finnish), istenít (Hungarian), idolatrar (Spanish), idolisera (Swedish), ilahlaştırmak (Turkish), tapmak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-idolize-en-verb-lQaFISYr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 89 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 25 75 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 13 87 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 88 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 10 90 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 11 89 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 7 93 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 19 81 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 11 89 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 17 83 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 16 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 13 87 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 11 89 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 11 89 Disambiguation of 'to adore excessively': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: idolise [UK] Derived forms: de-idolize

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "sense": "to make an idol of",
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      "sense": "to make an idol of",
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      "sense": "to make an idol of",
      "word": "idolleştirmek"
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      "sense": "to make an idol of",
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      "sense": "to make an idol of",
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      "sense": "to make an idol of",
      "word": "putlaştırmak"
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      "roman": "obožavam",
      "sense": "to adore excessively",
      "word": "обожавам"
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      "sense": "to adore excessively",
      "word": "idolatrar"
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      "sense": "to adore excessively",
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to adore excessively",
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      "sense": "to adore excessively",
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      "sense": "to adore excessively",
      "word": "istenít"
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      "sense": "to adore excessively",
      "word": "idolatrar"
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      "sense": "to adore excessively",
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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to adore excessively",
      "word": "ilahlaştırmak"
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      "sense": "to adore excessively",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (65a6e81 and 0dbea76). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.