magnify β to increase the apparent size of, as a lens does.
revere β to regard with respect tinged with awe; venerate: The child revered her mother.
acclaim β If someone or something is acclaimed, they are praised enthusiastically.
advance β To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.
aggrandize β To aggrandize someone means to make them seem richer, more powerful, and more important than they really are. To aggrandize a building means to make it more impressive.
eulogise β To praise, celebrate or pay homage to someone, especially in an eloquent formal eulogy.
honour β to hold in honor or high respect; revere: to honor one's parents.
honor β honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
idolise β to regard with blind adoration, devotion, etc.
idolize β to regard with blind adoration, devotion, etc.
sublime β elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc.: Paradise Lost is sublime poetry.
transfigure β to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
upgrade β an incline going up in the direction of movement.
worship β reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
build up β If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
halo β Also called nimbus. a geometric shape, usually in the form of a disk, circle, ring, or rayed structure, traditionally representing a radiant light around or above the head of a divine or sacred personage, an ancient or medieval monarch, etc.
uprear β to raise up; lift: The horse upreared its head and whinnied.
lionise β to treat (a person) as a celebrity: to lionize the visiting poet.
lionize β to treat (a person) as a celebrity: to lionize the visiting poet.